Bug 51840 – give bind the ability to call mysql for dns lookups

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-05-23 09:53:09 UTC]

this lets you use a mysqldb for dns updates in bind, without reloading zone files

Reproducible: Always
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added use flag "mysql" functionality. so those who dont want the patch, dont get it.

[Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-05-23 09:53:44 UTC]

Created attachment 31893 [details, diff]
patch to allow bind to call a mysql db

[Comment 2 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-05-23 09:54:30 UTC]

Created attachment 31894 [details]
ebuild with the mysql use flag, and accompanying patch

[Comment 3 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-05-23 09:55:42 UTC]

patch and mysql db are based from patch from:
http://gw.netbastards.org/bm/

[Comment 4 Jonathan Stewart 2004-06-04 14:14:53 UTC]

Instead of doing research on my own...

How well does this work?  Is it stable, tested, require special config? If it works(tm), this is a very interesting and potenially useful patch.

[Comment 5 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-06-21 09:25:56 UTC]

I've tested this and it works on x86 but not on sparc64. I'm going to research this.

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2004-06-23 13:14:16 UTC]

Commmited as bind-9.2.2-r4.ebuild. Test and let me know. Thanks!