Make sure you have something along the lines of this in your /etc/cobbler/settings file: manage_forward_zones: - 'lab.mycompany.com' James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394 et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/19/2008 03:17:53 PM: > Dustin Black <dblack@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > 06/19/2008 03:17 PM > > Please respond to > dblack@xxxxxxxxxxx; Please respond to > Fedora/Linux Management Tools <et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To > > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > > cc > > Subject > > Cobbler BIND DNS management confusion > > I could use some help understanding Cobbler's management of BIND. > > If I make any changes to the /etc/cobbler/named.template file and run > 'cobbler sync', I can clearly see that the changes that I make are > implemented in the /etc/named.conf file. > > Now I've been attempting to create a zone template under a directory > created per the wiki ManageDns documentation > -- /etc/cobbler/zone_templates. I want to create a zone with static A, > MX, and CNAME entries that are outside the scope of Cobbler's management > for that zone. If I create the zone template and run 'cobbler sync', > should I then expect Cobbler to add the zone information to the > named.conf file, as well as use the template to create an appropriate > zone file under /var/named? This doesn't seem to happen. > > If I try to add the zone information explicitly to > the /etc/cobbler/named.template file, named gives an error when > restarting that the /var/named/... zone file doesn't exist. > > I then thought that maybe Cobbler wouldn't create the named.conf zone > entry or the zone file until a Cobbler system entry existed for a host > in the domain. I created a dummy system with a hostname in the domain > in question and ran 'cobbler sync', but still no dice -- no zone entry > and no zone file. > > What more do I need to understand about how this BIND management works? > At what point or under what circumstances is the zone information > generated? > > Thanks in advance! > > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools