Applescripting Load Balance records

Re: Applescripting Load Balance records

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At 11:34 PM -0400 5/5/00, JWBaumann@aol.com wrote:
>I'm trying to Applescript the creation of load balance records with QuickDNS
>Pro admin. When I record the creation of an empty load balance record, I get
>this:
>
>tell application "QuickDNS Pro Admin"
> activate
> set infotext of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "Hosts: 0"
> set infotext of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "Hosts: 0"
> set name of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "untitled.com."
> set name of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "untitled.com."
> set infotext of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "Hosts: 0"
> set name of Load Balance record 1 of document 1 to "untitled.com."
>end tell

I'm told by our engineers that implementing recordability is quite a
bit of work. I'm not surprised that they didn't bother to clean up
recording for load balance records, since we figured that load
balance records wouldn't be used very extensively.

>However, when I attempt to play these commands back, I get errors such as
>"Unknown object type" if there is not already a Load Balance record 1.

Right - you're addressing a nonexistent object, since the recorded
steps don't create a load balance record.

>Worse yet, if I record the additonal steps of entering data into the load
>balance record, playing these commands back crashes QuickDNS Admin.
>
>I cannot make the following command work; it crashes QuickDNS Admin
>
>make new Load Balance record at end of document 1

Again, I'm not surprised. If you look at the definition of a Load
Balance record in the scripting dictionary, not all of the fields are
present. So it was never really intended to be scripted at all.

>If I create a template file and open it, and if that template file contains
>blank load balance records with the correct number of NS records and A
>records for what I'm doing, things work correctly, but this is pretty kludgy.
>Have I found a bug, or can someone educate me on the correct syntax for
>creating and configuring new load balance records with QuickDNS Pro using
>Applescript?

I believe you've stumbled across a small collection of bugs. Why are
you trying to script the creation of load balance records? Could you
not accomplish the same thing with a single load balance record in
your primary domain and CNAME (alias) records in your other domains?

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[...]

> make new MX record at end of document 1
> set name of MX record 1 of document 1 to "mail"
> set mailhost name of MX record 1 of document 1 to
>"mail.linkedresources.com."

Wouldn't you want your MX record's name to be set to ""? The result
of your code is:

mail.domain. MX 10 mail.linkedresources.com.

when what you probably want is:

domain. MX 10 mail.linkedresources.com.
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