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We use puppet to distribute named zone files, like many of you do. We use git to maintain these files, which are then pulled by the puppet master machine. These zone files are actually puppet template .erb files. The other day, I made a mistake which resulted in some zone files with syntax errors in them. Puppet faithfully distributed the erroneous zone files to the name servers, which killed

I should first say that I''m a complete beginner to Puppet so some of what I saw below could be incorrect. "Pro Puppet" is a pretty good book so far but it really should have had another editing step to correct the problems I''ve mentioned below. Here are the problems I''ve found so far. Some of these are embarrassingly trivial but some are true mistakes. I