solution for yast2-dns-server and slave zones

19 Apr 2004


      *problem*

OS: suse linux professional 9.0
PACKAGE: yast2-dns-server-2.8.11-55

if you configure bind9 from yast2 and add some slave zone
it won't write filename of the zone in the named.conf file
so it looks like this:

zone "example.com" in {
        masters {192.168.0.1;};
        type slave;
};

and you get these things in logs:

named[12652]: zone example.com/IN: loading zone: no master file
configured: continuing
named[12652]: zone example.com/IN: transferred serial 40991808
named[12652]: transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 195.222.62.37#53: end
of transfer

*solution*

edit /usr/share/YaST2/include/dns-server/misc.ycp file and find line (line
#362 in my file):

else if (zone_type == "slave" || zone_type == "stub")

and after the line:
                                                                                
SCR::Write (add (base, "masters"),zone["masters"]:"");

add those 4 lines:

filename = sformat ("slave/%1",
    zone["zone"]:"unknown");
zone["file"] = filename;
SCR::Write (add (base, "file"), "\"" + zone["file"]:"" + "\"");

that's it

when you add slave zone it will be correctly defined in named.conf
for example:

zone "example.com" in {
        masters {192.168.0.1;};
        file "slave/example.com";
        type slave;
};

solution for yast2-dns-server and slave zones

Aidin Alihodzic