Re: redhat-config-bind

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

Have you guys opened a support case about this?  Bugzilla is nice for
logging bugs, but Red Hat engineers won't necessarily work the bug until
support pesters them with a Support case  :)

Since this is a "enterprise" OS, they should address these bugs when you
open the case.

/Brian/

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:19, Scott Sibert wrote:
> Heck, it is messed up way more than that.  If you put a small
> hostname, like www, it puts two IN, like:
> 
> www   IN   IN   A   ipaddress
> 
> If the name is at least the length to the first tab (7 or 8 characters
> long) then it does not put that extra "IN".  How bizzare is that?  And
> the dialog box for entering the Nameserver for a domain is labeled
> backwards.  The "domain" field and the "is resolved by" field are
> labeled backwards.
> 
> And these are not the only bugs.
> 
> --Scott
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:58:54 -0400 (EDT), Jesus Aneiros Sosa
> <aneiros finf ucf edu cu> wrote:
> > 
> > That's OK for me but what really surprises me was the way this application
> > was behaving. Not a single message to say Hey I'm not able to deal with
> > ACL at least. I hope some RH engineer is reading this 'cause IMHO this is
> > really bad software progamming!
> > 
> > --
> > Jesus Aneiros Sosa
> > GNU/Linux User #190716
> > 
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Scott Sibert wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not sure about this specifically, but redhat-config-bind (on
> > > rhel3) is quite broken and I don't bother with it anymore.  You can
> > > use it to get a start but you'll have to edit the files manually.
> > > This is in bugzilla and appears to have been in there for a while but
> > > I don't know when fixes will be pushed out.  I don't remember the
> > > bugzilla number but I did find it the first time I tried using
> > > redhat-config-bind and it spit up too much.
> > > --Scott
> > >
> > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:53:50 -0400 (EDT), Jesus Aneiros Sosa
> > > <aneiros finf ucf edu cu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have found that if you put an ACL statement into your bind config file
> > > > (/etc/named.conf) then the redhat-config-bind gui tool simply gives a
> > > > flash at your X screen without giving you a clue about it.
> > > >
> > > > I wonder is this is a known bug?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jesus Aneiros Sosa
> > > > GNU/Linux User #190716
> 
> 
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