Search Again: Re: MySQL and QDNS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, October 11, 2002 Time: 12:34:04 pm At 12:12 AM -0400 10/11/02, Sean Stephens wrote: > >> Is there another way to make the tables or QDSN scriptable? >> AppleScript. > >Two more questions; > >1) Is QDNS capable of working with OSX Server BIND installation, or does it >have to use its own version? Either way. Mac OS X Server ships with BIND 8.2.3, though, and QuickDNS will install a newer version. Note that with QuickDNS 4, the installation of BIND's DNS server is optional. Note that once you install QuickDNS, Mac OS X Server's Server Admin (or Server Statistics, or whatever they're calling it in your version) will no longer be able to control the BIND name server. >2) Are there terminal commands which can manipulate the BIND which QDNS uses >(i.e. a resource for these commands) which I can read through? You would use the 'ndc' command to send messages to the BIND name server, and you would manipulate the files in /var/named/ - they're pretty easy to read. However, it's not safe to manipulate BIND's configuration separately from QuickDNS, as you run the risk of having the following sequence of events: - User opens zone in QuickDNS. - Web interface (or whatever tool you're trying to build) changes zone. - User saves zone, overwriting change made by web interface. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: MySQL and QDNS by Sean Stephens on Oct 10, 2002 at 6:59:49 am Re: MySQL and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Oct 10, 2002 at 12:27:30 pm Re: MySQL and QDNS by Sean Stephens on Oct 10, 2002 at 9:15:32 pm Re: MySQL and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Oct 11, 2002 at 12:34:04 pm