Generating /etc/hosts from zone files?

[DaveP]

icculus4128 at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi... I'm installing a new bind 8.2.1 server on Solaris. Our old Linux
> server had a utility which would generate a new /etc/hosts file based
> on the DNS zone files.
> 
> It was a mix of perl and C. Various pieces of it were called dns2unix,
> mkhosts, and dnsparse.pl.
> 
> It was written by hakanson at cse.ogi.edu.
> 
> I've been scouring the net for hours trying to find the original
> sources or an equivalent. I've found tons of utilities that will
> generate zone files from hosts files, but not the other way around.
> 
> Surely this is a not-uncommon task.
> 
> Can someone point me towards something useful?
> 
> thanks
> 
> johnS

The BIND 8 "contrib" distribution has what you need.

Where did you find the 'tons' of utilities to convert hosts files to
zone files? I've been looking for that without luck. I found a reference
to a utility called hostcvt but I can't locate a copy.

Dave