From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Please refer to Figure 28-2 at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-bindconf.html#S1-BINDCONF-FORWARD-MASTER-ZONE When using redhat-config-bind, I do not see the "Records" panel shown in Figure 28-2. This is a critical part of the program, and its not being there makes redhat-config-bind useless. As far as I am concerned, this bug makes redhat-config-bind completely useless. Also, I was disappointed to see WORSE functionality in RHEL3 than RH9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run redhat-config-bind 2. Click "New" 3. select "Forward Master Zone", and enter a domain name (e.g. bug.com) 3. Click OK Actual Results: I have posted the exact screen I get at http://www.anseljh.com/rhbug/1.png There is no "Records" panel, so I am unable to add hosts to a domain. This differs greatly from what is described and shown in the documentation. Expected Results: Referring to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-bindconf.html#S1-BINDCONF-FORWARD-MASTER-ZONE, I expected to see the UI shown in Figure 28-2, complete with a "Records" panel. (This would also be what I have seen previously in RH8 & 9) Additional info: 0) /etc/redhat-release says: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 1) 1) I also tried resizing the window, hoping that perhaps the "Records" panel is hiding somewhere. It's not. 2) This system was installed from RHEL3 Update 1 ISOs that I downloaded from Red Hat Network, and the system is fully patched. 3) I have another RHEL3 system, installed from the same ISOs, that exhibits this same problem. 4) This bug prevented me from adding any working records to BIND. I had to manually create the zone files using Emacs instead, which is why you see the other domains in my screenshot. They were NOT created with redhat-config-bind.
Created attachment 98216 [details] Screenshot of the bug This is a screenshot of the bug
Please try system-config-bind from rawhide. It has lots of fixes.
I tried system-config-bind-2.0.2-3.1.noarch.rpm from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/ The UI looked exactly the same as the redhat-config-bind that shipped with RHEL 3. Still couldn't get it to behave as described in documentation etc. The "Records" panel was still not there. If that's not what you meant for me to try, give me more specifics and I'm more than happy to try again.
Sorry, I did not read you bugzilla properly. I have been going through a hundred of them today. The add record functionality is now on the front screen. Select the domain you wish to add a record to and click the add record button. Dan
Thanks for the quick response. After messing around a bunch more, I did manage to get it to work. However, the documentation that shipped with RHEL 3 is totally wrong and doesn't cover this version of redhat-config-bind. I am probably far from the only person that's been confused by this. (I would bump it over to the docs people as fairly urgent.) I will be super-specific as to what I did and saw: * run system-config-bind. Opened up the Help->About to verify version. * Click "New" button to make a new zone, call it "foobar.com" (Screenshot #1) Click OK. * Type in a primary nameserver for the zone. (Screenshot #2) Click OK. * Click "Add Record" button. Type in "www" for host name, "12.34.56.78" for IP address. Click Ok. * Click "Add Record" button. Type in "mail" for host name, "12.34.56.78" for IP address. Click Ok. (Screenshot #3) So far so good. Now I want to add an MX for foobar.com. * Click "Add Record" button. Click "Mail Exchange" tab. (Screenshot #4) At this point I got pretty confused because this is very different from the docs. After trying a bunch of stuff, I finally put in "foobar.com." for name and picked mail.foobar.com. for the mail server. With this part done, I tried to save - however I got error messages complaining that 1) my new zone didn't have a nameserver and 2) my localhost record needed to have a nameserver too. I added a nameserver for the new zone and completely deleted the localhost record. With that done, I finally managed to save successfully.
Created attachment 98858 [details] Screenshot #1 Screenshot #1 as described above
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Created attachment 98860 [details] Screenshot #3 Screenshot #3 as described above
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-364.html