Reconfiguring a Slave Zone

Re: Reconfiguring a Slave Zone

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Warren,

Thanks for the critique. I've passed your message along to our
development staff for consideration.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
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At 1:52 PM -0700 5/23/02, Warren Michelsen wrote:
>At 11:22 AM -0700 5/21/02, Warren Michelsen wrote:
>>Using Manager 3.5.1 running on classic OS, trying to change a slave
>>zone setup on one of my QuickDNS servers (also on classic).
>>
>>When I select the zone and click Options, I'm told that there are
>>no user configurable options for this zone on this server. What I
>>need to do is change which server this zone should be transferred
>>from. How do I configure that?
>>
>>In the dialog telling me there are no configurable options, what is
>>the purpose of the pop-up menu listing my DNS servers? Selecting
>>one does not seem to make a difference anywhere.
>
>This turned out to be a confusing user interface. I'll explain.
>
>I had three QuickDNS servers running. ns0 and ns1 were both masters
>for all of my zones and ns2 was a slave. It was for ns2 that I was
>trying to make changes. I wanted to make my slave zones on ns2 get
>transfers from ns1 instead of ns0. With me so far?
>
>The key to understanding my confusion is that in QuickDNS Manager, I
>was in SERVER VIEW, not Zone View. That is, each of my three servers
>were listed and each showed the zone in question, which on the first
>two servers was a master and on the 3rd server, ns2, it was a slave
>zone.
>
>Since the zone entry I selected was the one listed under ns2, the
>server on which that zone is a slave, I naturally expected the
>options shown (when I clicked the Options button) to be those of the
>zone ON THE ns2 SERVER, the one from which I had selected the zone.
>Instead, the dialog opened informing me that there were no
>configurable options for that zone on "this server", which SHOULD
>HAVE BEEN ns2 but was not. (But I didn't know that.)
>
>I didn't know what to make of the pop-up selector with ns0, ns1 and
>ns2 on it. I did not realize that it was showing me which server's
>options I was seeing. I thought maybe it was giving me a list of
>servers to get the zone from for transfer to ns2, the server whose
>Options I thought I was changing. I tried selecting ns1 (the default
>was ns0) and nothing changed -- still no configurable options.
>Unfortunately, since I thought that the pop-up was for selecting
>which server to get transfers from, I didn't try selecting ns2 (It
>would make no sense to get zone transfers for ns2 from ns2, would
>it?) and was afraid I might break something. So I gave up and posted
>my question to the list.
>
>This IS a user interface issue. I had every reason to believe that
>selecting the zone from the listing shown under ns2 and then
>clicking Options would present me the options for that zone ON NS2.
>After all, that's how things work otherwise.
>
>For example, in Server View, select a zone that is a slave zone for
>that server. Double-click to open it. Sort it, delete records, make
>any changes you like. Nothing happens, the save button is never
>enabled because you are messing with a slave zone.
>
>Now double-click the same zone (Server View) on a server where it's
>a master zone. The first time you make a change, the save button is
>enabled as the zone is "dirty" and needs to be saved.
>
>See? when a zone is selected in Server View, it matters which server
>the zone is selected from. Except when looking at zone options.
>
>Since I'd selected my zone from ns2, the pop-up should have been
>showing ns2 (and ns2's options for that zone) when the the Options
>dialog opened.
>
>Anyway, that's why there was probably a big, collective "DUH!" when
>I posted my question...

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