We're going to be using IB as a hidden master to drive a set of anycast BIND resolvers. We'd like to write a snap-in that uses the BIND tool "rndc" to control these external boxes. I'm not holding my breath that such a thing is even possible :-) I looked on CPAN for Perl modules implementing this functionality, but didn't find anything.
Anyone know of any way to get rndc to run in bloxtools?
Thanks,
Dave
I don't know if that will work but you could try putting rndc in the bloxTools environment and then run a test script to launch it. Essentially, you'll need a Perl wrapper to run it.
Have you considered other options like the VM version of NIOS or a smaller box instead of using BIND? That would give you more options including API access to control the systems or centralized control from the Grid Master.
We have already bought a couple appliances and don't really have more money to throw at it at this point, plus we have lots of in-house expertise with BIND so that's what we're using :-)
We're gonna try making a completely statically linked version of rndc, but the guy who's doing that work says he'd like to know the versions of gcc / libgcc / glibc or whatever that are used by NIOS 5. Is this info readily available? Thanks.
You could also use rsh calls to rndc on the remote appliance. Net::OpenSSH compiles as a pure perl version and will work with the ssh libs built into bloxtools.
[quote user="horne"]You could also use rsh calls to rndc on the remote appliance.[/quote]
Yeah... I know.... but my boss is kindof a purist and would prefer to use rndc directly if possible :-)
Dave
Maybe this will help:
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