08071TCP@MSU.BITNET (Doug Nelson) (02/25/89)
>I am looking for utilities that can help me with the internet nameserver. >I would like to have a program that queries the nameserver of different >zones and generates a /etc/hosts compatible file from the resource >records, for those hosts in our LAN that can not use the nameserver. >I am also interested in programs that help creating nameserver >database files, especially for the PTR records. I don't worry about the former - I just fetch the "hosts" format lists from several different domains I'm interested in, plus the NIC hosts list. I'm anxiously awaiting the day when all our systems will call domain service instead, though. I have a number of awk scripts and a small program that you might be interested in. I maintain data for my local domain in "hosts.txt" format, almost identical to that used by SRI-NIC. A couple of the awk scripts convert this format to the "/etc/hosts" and "named" formats. The program, "ndrev", takes the "named" format records and generates "PTR" entries for hosts in a given (sub-)network. If you are interested in any of these, take a look at the files in "src/hostmaint" on serv1.cl.msu.edu. Doug Nelson Michigan State University