Dynamic updates

OpenNetAdmin does not currently support zones that are dynamically updated. The issue is that BIND now manages a journal file and you can not recreate new updated zone files and then restart the server. This causes corruption and out of sync issues with the journal file.

To support dynamic update zones ONA would need to send individual updates to the BIND server as things are added/modified etc. This is a MUCH more complex task and one that is likely not to happen anytime soon. nsupdate is one tool that I have used at times to help push some data from ONA into AD domains but it was a very purpose built specific task. It does serve as a concept however.

The most common situation is working with Active Directory domains. Please refer to this page on how I recommend configuring your AD domain to work with ONA.