On 11/27/2013 10:51 AM, Khalid Hosein wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to do the following:
>
> Have Cobbler manage BIND for me for a given zone (e.g. example.com
> <http://example.com>), *and* still be able to add my own custom records
> (e.g. www.example.com <http://www.example.com>, stuff.example.com
> <http://stuff.example.com>).
>
> I've tested creating a zone template file in
> /etc/cobbler/zone_templates/ but that seems to override the zone file
> that Cobbler tries to create itself.

You need $host_record in your template for cobbler to insert the records
it manages.

Thanks Orion - Oh how I wish it were that simple! I've been able to have Cobbler successfully manage BIND. 

The question is whether I can *add* DNS records to BIND outside of (in addition to) the ones that Cobbler generates and adds to BIND.

(I don't see anything in the documentation or the mailing list archives that indicates this is possible.)

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Orion Poplawski