On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:19 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
On 07/12/2011 06:44 PM, William Hooper wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Emmett Culleyemmett@webengineer.com wrote:
First system-config-network is not part of CentOS/RHEL 6, now I don't see system-config-bind either. Is there an alternative (GUI) way to manage the bind DNS server?
It looks like there is no GUI way.
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_...
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"The system-config-bind tool has been deprecated and removed without replacement. Editing the name server configuration manually via the named.conf file is recommended in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6."
I don't get this. Both system-config-network and system-config-bind are in Fedora 15. I can sort of get why they would deprecate system-config-network in favor of NetworkManager (barely), but how are we to manage the DNS server? It is NOT trivial to create and manage DNS records with a text editor. For me Webmin is a little too bloated to install, just to manage bind. Is it time to for me (or the community) to create these useful tools?
---- personally, I use Webmin to manage DNS, DHCP & LDAP Users & Groups
Yes, it is bloated considering I really only use 3 modules but it handles them well and it's easy enough to install.
I suppose you could download the SRPM of system-config-bind from CentOS-5 and rebuild it and make yourself happy which sounds a whole lot easier than re-inventing the wheel but knock yourself out.
Craig