RedZone

Generate BIND zone files from simple yaml configuration.

RedZone is a command-line utility for generating BIND DNS zone files from a YAML file.

RedZone was inspired by Daniel P. Berrange's NoZone script which does something very similar in Perl. The notable differences are:

• Added support for reverse-dns generation
• Removed zone inheritance, opting instead to just use a common section from which all zones inherit details.
• No generation of named.conf.

This gem was just released (pre 1.0) and is not ready for production use yet.

During pre 1.0, things may change that break backwards compatibility between releases. Most likely these breaking changes would be related to the YAML file syntax.

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$ gem install redzone

RedZone commands:
  redzone generate [DIRECTORY]  # Generates a bind database files into the given DIRECTORY. If DIRECTORY is not supplied, it defaults to '/var/named'
  redzone help [COMMAND]        # Describe available commands or one specific command
  redzone version               # Shows the current version of redzone

Options:
  [--zones=ZONES]  # RedZone zone configuration.
                   # Default: /etc/redzone/zones.yml

• Create a zones.yml file (See [zones.yml.example]) in /etc/redzone
• Execute redzone generate /var/named/data
• Each zone and reverse record database should be present in /var/named

For example, if your zone.yml file is like the zones.yml.example file then the resulting db files are:

$ ls -1 /var/named/data
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.c.f.ip6.arpa.db
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.db
32.12.in-addr.arpa.db
9.8.7.6.4.3.2.1.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.db
qa.redzone.com.db
redzone.com.db

$ bundle
$ bundle exec rake spec

$ bundle
$ [bundle exec] rake install

Please include a reproducible test case.

Copyright (c) 2014 Justen Walker.

Released under the terms of the MIT License. For further information, please see the file LICENSE.md.