Craig Wrote:
This is just my opinion and may not be similar to anyone else's.
Red Hat's gui tool for admin BIND (I think it is system-config-named) is useless or worse than useless
I don't use it. The only times I have tried to use it I abandoned everything that it did.
I use webmin <http://www.webmin.com> where I need to set up dns. It's awesome.
I have been using Webmin since one of the first releases. I agree it is awesome and has improved immensely over the past couple of years.
That is my preference for managing all my machines at work and here at home too. However, I noticed with SuSE first and now Fedora is that to eliminate difficulties in the initial setup of various services, one sometimes needs to allow the stock distribution tools to do the setup. Then come in after the fact and either tweak or manage the configurations with Webmin.
In fact this very thing is what my current problem has been. Webmin never seems to find the chroot files for DNS unless they are linked out to /var/named as Fedora packages them. Also Webmin only creates the files in the standard location of /var/named. I move the file to the chroot location where Fedora has thier stock original files and then link it out to the /var/named as Fedora did and all works as expected.
I have not spent allot of time digging through Webmin due to the work load ;), but do you know if they have an easy way to configure where the Webmin modules go out and look for files for the services it can manage?
Bill
