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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">Hello,
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I'm involved in a project that needs to remote control a NSD
server. Since NSD3 has no remote control functionality and NSD4
will, I see a few possibilities to accomplish this:
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1. Since the project is still in the early stages, simply waiting
for NSD4 to be released is an option. My question in this case is:
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* Is there an estimate of when will NSD4 be released?
Obviously no one can commit to a date,
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but is the time left before release measured in weeks,
months, or years?
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2. Backport the remote control functionality from NSD4 to NSD3. My
C is rusty, but I'm willing to put in the effort. My questions in
this case are:
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* Is this technically feasible? If remote control is tightly
integrated into NSD4,
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it may be futile to try to backport it.
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* Does this make sense time-wise? If NSD4 will be released
before backporting is done,
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there's no point in backporting.
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3. Write my own script that accepts commands over the network,
modifies nsd.conf and/or the zonefiles, and SIGHUPs the NSD
daemon. This is the "default" if 1 and 2 are impossible. It could
also be a stopgap measure until NSD4 is released.
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Cheers!
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