[freeside] $GENERATE records in BIND

[Vlad Sedov]

ivan - 

that's a great idea... hell, that can be done with javascript :-)
the whole idea is not having to type hundreds of lines. expanding and
collapsing them would be cool, but probably not necessary.



On 5/12/05, ivan <ivan at 420.am> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:30:11PM -0700, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> > I've been thinking about adding support for this as well.  The one problem
> > I ran into is that there would be no way to reference one of the generated
> > records in a svc_www (or potentially any other table that referenced a
> > recnum).  If this sort of limitation is acceptable, then I don't see why
> > it shouldn't be supported.  After all, you're probably not going to end up
> > setting up a vhost for dialup-192-168-100-20.mydomain.net anyway. :-)
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> I don't think $GENERATE should necessarily be supported verbatim, it is
> a BIND-specific zone-file shortcut.
> 
> How about "expanding" the $GENERATE records on initial import, and
> having a "$GENERATE"-like option in the web UI?  If we wanted to get
> extra-fancy, we could also optionally "collapse" the multiple records
> back into a single line "$GENERATE"-like display when displaying them.
> 
> --
> _ivan
> 
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Vlad Sedov wrote:
> >
> > > hello list -
> > >
> > > I could not find a way to add $GENERATE records into BIND through freeside.
> > >
> > > is anyone using $GENERATE records?  I was thinking about hacking that
> > > little option into freeside. These types of records are very handy for
> > > ISP's with lots of IP addresses for dialup, broadband, etc.
> > >
> > > a refresher for those that forgot ;-) -
> > >
> > > e.g.
> > > $GENERATE 20-220 dialup-192-168-100-$.mydomain.net. A 192.168.100.$
> > >
> > > ..will generate:
> > >
> > > dialup-192-168-100-20.mydomain.net   IN   A  192.168.100.20
> > > dialup-192-168-100-21.mydomain.net   IN   A  192.168.100.21
> > > ....
> > > ....
> > > dialup-192-168-100-220.mydomain.net   IN   A  192.168.100.220
> > >
> > > it's a neat one-liner to make the zone files look a bit more readable,
> > > and saves you from having to type a million lines.
> > >
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > -stereomind
> > >
> >
>