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Author:  cnst [ Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Is YADIFA better than NSD3?
Hi,

I have a couple of dozen domain name zones, and I was disappointed in how with NSD3 you have to do a lot of copy-pasting between the zone configurations in order to set up the zones.

The zone files themselves can easily be shared (just use the "@" notation), but it seemed like "notify" and "provide-xfr" had to be repeated for every single zone every single time, causing lots of copy-pasting and somewhat of a headache to maintain or modify later on (especially since Linode DNS slave setup is not centralised, so you have to list each IP individually).

Is YADIFA any better? Also, for a couple of dozen of zones, each having only a couple of records, which server is likely to use the least amount of resources? Or any other IPv6 NS auth server that's worth looking at?

C.
Author:  kbar [ Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Is YADIFA better than NSD3?
You might be able to take advantage of `include` so that there is less copy pasting. I use nsd3, and I have a lot of zones served by a hidden nsd3 master with the Linode nameservers as slaves. This is what my nsd3 configuration file structure looks like (/usr/local/etc/nsd/):

keys (dir containing dnssec keys and such)
zones (dir containing actual zonefiles)
slaves.conf
nsd.conf
zones.conf

nsd.conf
Code:
server:
    blah blah blah

include: /usr/local/etc/nsd/zones.conf


zones.conf
Code:
zone:
    name: examplezone.tld
    zonefile: /usr/local/etc/nsd/zones/examplezone.tld.zone
    include: /usr/local/etc/nsd/slaves.conf


slaves.conf
Code:
#ns1.linode.com
    notify: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY
    provide-xfr: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY

#ns2.linode.com
    notify: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY
    provide-xfr: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY

#ns3.linode.com
    notify: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY
    provide-xfr: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY

#ns4.linode.com
    notify: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY
    provide-xfr: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY

#ns5.linode.com
    notify: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY
    provide-xfr: the.ip.addr.here NOKEY


Hopefully this helps. There probably is a better way to do it, but this works for me, and is pretty simple.
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