Re: system-config-dns?

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:18:07AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> The RHEL 4 reference guide at
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/ch-bind.html
> discusses the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool and refers to it as
> redhat-config-bind.  Neither of these is present, and there does not seem
> to be a GUI tool that I can find to configure DNS (i.e.
> system-config-bind).
> 
> Now me personally, I favor vi for configuring DNS.  However, I am teaching
> a RHEL 4 class at the local community college and many of these new admins
> like GUI tools.  

I tried to work with the GUI tool in RHEL 3 and it just sucked.  Badly.
I will admit to not looking at the most of the gui tools in RHEL 4 to
see if they've improved.  Some were quite nice in RHEL 3 but others
(like named and apache) weren't something I would ever want to use.

When I took my RHCE prep course last year, I asked about the GUI tool
for configuring bind and was told that none of the gui tools are being 
taught - you are being taught the command line tools.

> It is also frustrating when I point them to the online
> docs and they are just wrong.  It seems to me that someone cut and pasted
> from the RHEL 3 docs without checking for accuracy.
> 
> So what do I tell these students about configuring BIND?  Is the solution vi?

vi works.  The beauty is that the students will understand more how bind
actually works rather than just driving a gui tool that teaches them
nothing.

> Also - if I wanted to contribute to the docs, could I as a non-Red Hat
> person?

You can file bugzilla entries against the docs I think as well.  For
example, for the SysAdmin guide, see this link:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-intro-more-to-come.html#S2-INTRO-FEEDBACK

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