[as112-ops] AS112 configuration templates

[Łukasz Bromirski]

Matthew,

> On 3 Sep 2024, at 15:03, Matthew Pounsett <matt at dns-oarc.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 12:09:51AM +0200, Lukasz Bromirski wrote:
>> AS112 Team,
>> 
>> I gathered some configurations for various daemons that typically
>> run AS112 servers - BIND (already documented in RFC), FRRouting
>> (similar to Quagga/Zebra, documented in RFC), BIRD 2.x, NSD 4.x
>> and basic FreeBSD rc.conf/sysctl.conf configuration.
>> 
>> Repository is here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/lukasz-bromirski/as112-template
> 
> Do you mind if we link this from the How-To section of the project web site?
> <https://as112.net/references/>

That would be great! Feel free please.

> I've only taken a quick look so far, but one thing I think might be helpful is
> a checklist of local configuration that requires changing from the templates.
> 
> For example, if someone takes the templates and doesn't notice the placeholder
> text in the db.hostname.as112.* files nothing would alert them to the fact
> that their configuration is wrong.  There may be other bits of placeholder
> config in there would silently do the wrong thing, rather than actually
> generate an error or fail... and a checklist would help draw an op's attention
> to them.
> 
> Even a consistent "# change this!" type comment that people could search for
> would do it, I think.

Maria from BIRD team proposed something similar. I'll work on this over next couple of days.

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Łukasz Bromirski