On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > around. Russ may be of the opinion that everyone should memorize > bazillion-page books of details about each quirky service or hire dunno that those are my words at all The issue was DNS zone files One takes a template, and in the residential user case, edits perhaps 5 lines, consisting of A and CNAME records for a residential network for the 'forward' zonefiles ... or uses 'h2n' that takes as its input a file that looks like /etc/hosts s-c-bind may have met the need or it may not have, but it was not worth learning to me, after a brief examination, because it provided no gain over incumbent tools to me to make it worth going down its learning curve. The s-c-kickstart-config (or whatever it was named) tool is in that same boat The one off domain case is just not that hard The commercial case with hundred of complex entries is not the same scale problem, and to hope for a common tool need not be a dream -- but, the overhead of setting up a scalable keyed DNS management tool, is not worth the effort cost to a residential user and I suspect not worth the support load it would cost the upstream on what is an essentially bespoke solution -- Russ herrold