[Fwd: DNS Import of /etc/hosts file]

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 06:12:05PM -0500, Juan R Mendez wrote:
> Ron,
> 
> Go to the DNS tools web page at http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/tools.html and download
> the h2n program. It generates forward and reverse zone files from /etc/hosts
> files.
> 
> Juan R Mendez

Do be aware that there may be some incompatibilities.  I believe we
found that h2n copies IP addresses literally, so something that was
010.010.010.010 in the /etc/hosts file would be the same in a zone file
- which translates to 8.8.8.8 (leading zeroes being octal numbers).

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