[retronet] Subdomains of retrocomp.net…

[John P. Willis]

I think this is a wonderful idea. Personally, I don't think there's
any real reason we can't effectively offer all three options. BIND
is pleasantly flexible that way.

Do we want it integrated in any way into the registration system
I'm putting together? It will be able to hold <$memberNickname>,
and could easily spit out zonefiles/sections of zonefiles/kick
off an rndc retransfer.

I manage my own DNS with a set of scripts (in NetBSD) that set a
lockfile preventing concurrent access, read the current serial number,
copy the zonefile to /tmp, open it in $EDITOR, and when you save/exit,
it makes sure that $oldserial > $newserial, does a git commit/push to
a private BitBucket repo, and kicks off an rndc retransfer.

Pretty used to automating this sort of thing. Not saying those
scripts are useful in this scenario, however.


--jpw

----- Original Message -----
From: "gtaylor" <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
To: "RetroNet" <retronet at mailman.chivanet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 10:26:11 PM
Subject: [retronet] Subdomains of retrocomp.net…

Hi,

Someone asked if we would be willing to provide subdomains of the 
retrocomp.net domain.

I'm perfectly cool with supporting <$memberNickname>.retrocomp.net.

What do people think?

We could easily:

1)  Host the subdomain as part of the main retrocomp.net zone.
2)  Delegate the subdomain to the member's DNS server for them to host.
3)  We could even slave the zone off of the member's DNS server if they 
wanted us to.  —  This would keep the zone / subdomain accessible even 
while the member's DNS server is inaccessible (for what ever reason).

I'm mostly indifferent to which of the three that we do.

It is possible to leverage various BIND options to allow the member to 
make changes to their subdomain as part of the main retrocomp.net zone 
without allowing them to change things they shouldn't.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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