README.md

dnsupdate

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
4. Usage
5. Requirements
6. Compatibility
7. Limitations
8. Development

Overview

This is the dnsupdate module. It uses nsupdate included with bind-utils to manage DNS records.

Module Description

This module will delete invalid A records, and create valid A records with a matching PTR in Microsoft Active Directory Integrated DNS. It checks to make sure the bind-utils package is installed and creates a nsupdate file /etc/nsupdate which is formed from template using facter in for an nsupdate script. It then queuries DNS using nslookup to match PTR and A records, if either don't match, it runs.

Setup

You may need to configure AD DNS security to allow the zone updates.

Usage

include dnsupdate

Requirements

puppetlabs/stdlib >= 4.2.0

Compatibility

• RHEL 5, 6, 7
• CentOS 6, 7
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
• Fedora 18, 19, 20, 21

Limitations

This module has been tested on:

Server:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Client:

• RHEL 7
• CentOS 6
• CentOS 5
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 6

Development

Contributions:

• John Richards [email protected] (MOD) original bash service script this module was based on
• Justin Dossey [email protected] (New Context) for the elegant sed
• TomyWork (IRC #puppet) for the helping me figure out the operator and shell provider for unless

Contact

Email: [email protected]

WWW: www.aspendenver.org

Github: https://github.com/swizzley