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Resolve and purging
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Chip Seraphine |
Subject: |
Resolve and purging |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:22:22 -0600 |
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The docs list this as a feature, so I'm sending this grumble to help- instead
of bugs-.
The resolve: section really needs some sort of purge attribute. The syntax of
it make it very nice for maintaining the resolver, but it's inability to
remove lines make it impractical; you end up having to use editfiles: or
copy: instead. Editfiles is clumsy for maintaining entire files and copy:
isn't a good choice when your basic assumption is that your network
configuration is hosed.
Before I go about writing/submitting a patch with a 'PurgeResolver' variable,
is there a known reason why it (currently) won't delete lines? I agree that
it is reasonable default behavior, but making it mandatory severely limits
the usefulness of resolve: to environments where old DNS servers never get
decommissioned, nobody every makes typos, DNSs are never re-IP'd, etc. This
makes me think that the thinking behind this limitation is grounded in
reasons other than technical, so I'd like to get some clarification lest I
submit a patch that will just be shot down....
- Resolve and purging,
Chip Seraphine <=