We could now ask you to install an all-new version of our administration tool in order to accommodate the new configuration file format. On one hand, that is costly in terms of bandwidth. On the other hand, making sure the tool operates properly with all possible combinations of updates applied or not applied would be rather time-consuming for us. The ideal solution would be to package the DNS server administration module alongside our BIND update. Data Model Let's take a closer look at the internal data representation.
All information is stored in a tree, with each node having an individual name.
For instance, the node containing the password of the root user is named system.accounts.users.0.password. If you're familiar with SNMP, think of the way SNMP variables are named. All this information is provided by the so-called schema. This creates a record named mouse containing five scalar nodes. For instance, model is a plain string variable, while deviceFile is a special string type whose definition is shown above the record.