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- From: cricket@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Cricket Liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Why not automatically do reverse domains?
- Message-ID: <1960004@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:10:36 GMT
- References: <NELSON.92Dec8111713@cheetah.clarkson.edu>
- Organization: the foot of the ivory tower, with vertigo
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- William LeFebvre writes:
-
- There is such a tool, but it is not (yet) part of the bind
- distribution. It's called "h2n" and is a perl script written by the
- authors of "DNS and BIND in a nutshell". It converts a file in
- "/etc/hosts" format into the appropriate bind zone files. Off hand, I
- don't know of an archive site that carries it. Cricket? You out
- there?
-
- Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this--my NNTP server can't decide
- whether it wants me to read comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains or not. Some
- days yes, some days no....
-
- Anyway, h2n is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net in
- /published/oreilly/nutshell/dnsbind/dns.tar.Z and from ftp.ora.com in
- /pub/nutshell/dnsbind/dns.tar.Z. As Bill mentioned, it does build both
- forward and reverse mapping files from /etc/hosts, with the help of a few
- command-line options.
-
- cricket
-