dns-hosts-import

Langue: en

Version: 110982 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

dns-hosts-import - generate DNS tables from /etc/hosts entries

SYNOPSIS

dns-hosts-import [ option... ] filename...
dns-hosts-import -Help
dns-hosts-import -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

The dns-hosts-import program is used to read your /etc/hosts file and generate a DNS forward map from it, as a first step to configuring DNS.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:
-Help

Provide some help with using the dns-hosts-import program.
-VERSion

Print the version of the dns-hosts-import program being executed.

All other options will produce a diagnostic error.

All other options will produce a diagnostic error. Options may be abbreviated, the minimum abbreviation is shown in upper-case. Options are case insensitive. Options and file names may be mixed arbitrarily on the command line.

EXIT STATUS

The dns-hosts-import command will exit with a status of 1 on any error. The dns-hosts-import command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.

EXAMPLE

If you have an /etc/hosts file which looks like this:
 182.168.1.1     mercury
 182.168.1.2     venus
 182.168.1.3     earth
 182.168.1.4     mars
 182.168.1.5     jupiter
 182.168.1.6     saturn
 182.168.1.7     neptune
 182.168.1.8     uranus
 182.168.1.9     pluto lp
 
By using the following command
 % dns-hosts-import /etc/hosts hosts-tmp
 %
 
You will see an output file of the form
 
 $origin example.com.
 @               in      soa     example.com. hostmaster.example.com. (
                                 3       ; serial
                                 10800   ; refresh: 3 hours
                                 1800    ; retry: 30 minutes
                                 604800  ; expire: 1 week
                                 86400 ) ; minimum: 1 day
 mercury         in      a       182.168.1.1
 venus           in      a       182.168.1.2
 earth           in      a       182.168.1.3
 mars            in      a       182.168.1.4
 jupiter         in      a       182.168.1.5
 saturn          in      a       182.168.1.6
 neptune         in      a       182.168.1.7
 uranus          in      a       182.168.1.8
 pluto           in      a       182.168.1.9
 lp              in      cname   pluto
 
You are expected to manually edit this into the rest of the database. You especially need to put sensable values into the SOA record.

See dns-hosts(1) for how to retrieve your /etc/hosts file once you have imported it.

dns-hosts-import version 1.8,
Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Peter Miller; All rights reserved.

The dns-hosts-import program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'dns-hosts-import -VERSion Warranty' command. The dns-hosts-import program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'dns-hosts-import -VERSion Redistribution' command.

AUTHOR

Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
/\/\* Web: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/