DNSTOOLS COPYRIGHT (c) 2000 Damon LaCaille

DNSTools has been released under the GPL.  Please
see the file "license" for more information.


One assumption is that you will be hosting all of your
DNS data in DNSTools.  DNSTools does not allow you to delegate
subdomains or reverse ARPA (RFC 2317/CIDR) zones.  You shouldn't
need to delegate, however, if you offer those administrators
access to DNSTools and give them proper permissions.

DNSTools does not support CIDR in terms of RFC 2317.  There
is no need to implement CIDR if you are hosting your domains
on a single machine.  A huge benefit of DNSTools is that
you can separate the DNS data into domains which are owned
by groups.  Each group has 1 or more users who can modify
that data.  This should make it easy for you, your customers
and your users to have completely separate administrators
and authority for the separate areas.

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                        REQUIREMENTS:
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1) BIND VERSION 8 ONLY!!! Bind v9 support to be added later.
2) Either Linux or Solaris (other OSes likely work but have not been tested)
3) MySQL (only tested on version 3.23, probably works on anything newer)
4) Apache (only tested on 1.3.24)
5) PHP (only tested on 4.1.2)
6) C Compiler

**** MAKE SURE YOU DO THESE STEPS BEFORE STARTING!

1) Install the SOURCE version of MySQL and compile it.  Otherwise
   you'll have all sorts of possible dynamic library linking problems
   with the libmysqlclient library files!  Don't say we didn't warn you.

   This file is normally only found in the source of MySQL and
   is usually compiled into an object file specific for your
   hardware/OS.

   One note:  Feel free to experiment.  On Solaris, you can sometimes
   set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the library mentioned above,
   and it may just work.  You may also need to create a symbolic link
   to the library if it fails and says it can't find it.

2) Ensure Apache has PHP support (shared object modules (mod_so))
   compiled in (see Apache manual for this).
   To see if it's installed type "httpd -l" and look for "mod_so.c".
   If the shared object module (mod_so) is not there, you'll have
   to download the Apache source code and configure it in.  Surprisingly
   it's not usually compiled into many Linux distributions.

3) Ensure PHP has MySQL and Apache support compiled in.
   See PHP manual for this or simply use --with-mysql
   and --with-apxs during compile time.

4) Compile the dnstools executable (type "make" in this directory).

5) Run the 'install.sh' file after all the steps above are complete.

You'll also want to write a script or batch job that
automatically forces BIND to re-read it's config files every 30-60 minutes
or whatever is good for you.  DNSTools does not restart BIND or force
BIND to re-read it's config files because of security issues involved
with it.  This may be addressed in a future release.