DNS/Netbox

Part of the DNS records are or will soon be automatically generated from data that resides in Netbox.

Infrastructure

• Netbox data is exported via Netbox#DNS.
• Netbox data is checked out on the authoritative DNS servers in /srv/git/netbox_dns_snippets.
• When compiling the gdnsd final zones, the Netbox data is copied into /etc/gdnsd/zones/netbox for later inclusion.
• In the actual zonefiles, within an $ORIGIN, the related snippet file is included using the $INCLUDE directive.

Operations

Update generated records

To update the dynamically generated records based on the current Netbox data and deploy them to all the authoritative DNS servers, the sre.dns.netbox cookbook must be run. See also Cookbooks#Cookbook_Operations.

Convert an hardcoded $ORIGIN to Netbox

This is an example patch to convert an hardcoded $ORIGIN to the dynamically generated data.