Re: redhat-config-bind

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

I would contact your Sales Rep and have him escalate up the chain.  :) 
Sometimes that works wonders.

/Brian/

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:00, Scott Sibert wrote:
> There are two Bugzilla reports that deal with some of the brokenness.
> 
> November 19, 2003:  110418
> December 1, 2003:  111303
> 
> Both of these are closed, and the resolution?  Use RawHide.  That is
> pretty damn sorry.  Not even released in one of the Updates.  The
> rawhide one might be a little buggy.  That's why it is in rawhide. 
> But the one in RHEL3 is BROKEN!!!  I find it baffling that they don't
> push out something that works to replace something that not only
> doesn't work but will take a working set of zone files and break them.
> 
> March 2, 2004:  117339
> 
> This one deals with inconsistencies between the redhat-config-bind
> that shipped and the RHEL3 sysadmin guide.  Guess what?  The docs were
> written for an older version and haven't been updated.
> 
> I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box, but I just don't understand
> this continuing problem.
> 
> Sorry for the ranting.
> 
> --Scott
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:38:09 -0400, Brian Long <brilong cisco com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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