Zones menu contains commands for creating and modifying zones for administrator. For normal user it only provides zone selection command for selecting the active zone.
Show Current command displays the currently selected zone information. It is default command when entering Zones menu. Name of the currently selected zone can be seen on the left side of the screen in "Current selections" box.
Show Pending command displays list of pending changes for hosts in this zone. This list currently displays all new or modified hosts (or aliases) since DNS configuration was last time generated.
Also when viewing a host record, there is word PENDING at the end of the "Record created" or "Last modified" fields if changes to this record are not yet in effect.
Select command displays list of available zones in current server for selecting active zone.
Add command is used to create a new zone. This command is only available for administrator. See Table 5-3 for descriptions of the fields used in the command dialog.
Table 5-3. New Zone Dialog
| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Zone name | Zone name (without the dot in the end) | middle.earth |
| Type | Zone type; Master=master zone, Slave=slave zone | Master |
| Reverse | Reverse zone flag; Yes=reverse zone, No=normal zone | No |
Add Default Zones command is used to automatically add the standard zones for normal DNS server. This command will try to add following zones into current server:
localhost
127.in-addr.arpa
0.in-addr.arpa
255.in-arrd.arpa
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Copy command copies entire zone (including all the hosts in a master zone) under new name. This option can be used to use existing zone as a template when creating new zones. This command is available only for administrator.
Delete command allows removal of a zone. This command should be used with caution, since it will remove the entire zone from the database. This command is available only for administrator.
Edit command is used to edit existing zone. This command is only available for administrator. See Table 5-4 for descriptions of the fields used in the command dialog.
Table 5-4. Edit Zone Dialog
| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Zone name | Zone name (without the dot in the end) | middle.earth |
| Comments | optional comments about the zone | company main zone |
| Info TXT record auto generation | Flag that controls the automatic generation of descriptive TXT records for each host from the host info fields (User,Dept,Location,Info) | Yes |
| "Dummy" zone | Flag when set, causes this zone to be treated as a "dummy" zone that only appears in the named.conf but the zone file will not be generated by Sauron. | No |
| Class | Zone class; IN (Internet), CHAOS, HESIOD, HS | IN |
| Hostmaster | Zone specific hostmaster's email address. If empty hostmaster's email address from server record is used. | |
| Check-names | BIND's "check-names" option; default, fail, ignore, warn | default |
| Notify | BIND's "notify" option; default, yes, no | default |
| Refresh | SOA record refresh value. If empy, value from the server record is used instead | |
| Retry | SOA record retry value. If empy, value from the server record is used instead | |
| Expire | SOA record expire value. If empy, value from the server record is used instead | |
| Minimum (negative caching TTL) | SOA record minimun value. If empy, value from the server record is used instead | |
| Default TTL | Default TTL for RRs in this zone. If empy, value from the server record is used instead | |
| IP addresses (A) | Zone A record(s). | 192.168.1.1 |
| Name servers (NS) | Zone NS records (there should always be at least two name servers defined for a zone) | ns1.middle.earth ns2.middle.earth |
| Mail exchanges (MX) | Zone MX records | 10 mail1 10 mail2 20 mailbackup |
| Info (TXT) | Zone TXT records. | |
| Allow dynamic updates | BIND allow-update option | |
| Allow queries from | BIND allow-query option | |
| Allow zone-transfers from | BIND allow-transfer option | |
| [Stealth] Servers to notify | BIND also-notify option | |
| Zone specific DHCP entries | dhcpd options for all hosts in this zone |