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NO_PURGE
NO_PURGE indicates that existing records should not be deleted from a domain. Records will be added and updated, but not removed.Suppose a domain is managed by both DNSControl and a third-party system. This creates a problem because DNSControl will try to delete records inserted by the other system.
By setting
NO_PURGE on a domain, this tells DNSControl not to delete the records found in the domain.The original reason for
NO_PURGE was that a legacy system was adopting DNSControl. Previously the domain was managed via Microsoft DNS Server's GUI. ActiveDirectory was in use, so various records were being inserted behind the scenes. It was decided to use DNSControl to simply insert a few records. The NO_PURGE setting instructed DNSControl not to delete the existing records.In this example DNSControl will insert "foo.example.com" into the zone, but otherwise leave the zone alone. Changes to "foo"'s IP address will update the record. Removing the A("foo", ...) record from DNSControl will leave the record in place.
dnsconfig.js
D("example.com", REG_MY_PROVIDER, DnsProvider(DSP_MY_PROVIDER), NO_PURGE,
A("foo","1.2.3.4")
);
The main caveat of
NO_PURGE is that intentionally deleting records becomes more difficult. Suppose a NO_PURGE zone has an record such as A("ken", "1.2.3.4"). Removing the record from dnsconfig.js will not delete "ken" from the domain. DNSControl has no way of knowing the record was deleted from the file The DNS record must be removed manually. Users of NO_PURGE are prone to finding themselves with an accumulation of orphaned DNS records. That's easy to fix for a small zone but can be a big mess for large zones.Prior to DNSControl v4.0.0, not all providers supported
NO_PURGE.With introduction of
diff2 algorithm (enabled by default in v4.0.0), NO_PURGE works with all providers.Last modified 6mo ago