[CentOS] editing bind (DNS) configuration under CentOS 6

Wed May 2 13:21:47 UTC 2012
Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:

> On 05/02/2012 02:09 PM, Nux! wrote:
> >> it manually? That is doable, of course, but kind of cumbersome. Does
> >> anybody know if there is a tool we are expected to use for that
> >> purpose?
> >
> > If you're afraid of "vi", I can recommend webmin.
> > http://dl.nux.ro/rpm/webmin.repo
> >
>
> and then you have 2 problems, one of which is a security hole.
>
> I've mostly just gone to using nsupdate  from the cli for all zone edits
> in bind zones. if you ever need the clear zone file, its easily dumped
> out with rndc - works, and you can do some fairly complex things in a
> clear and simple transaction manner ( plus, easily automated  from other
> scripts / code for more win )
>
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What's the security problem associated with webmin?

Boris.