Parsing an AXFR zone transfer into a name record

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Dec 4 00:14:34 UTC 2001


> In article <9uh11j$9p2 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jobe Bittman  <jobe at tns.net> wrote:
> >Are there any tools out there for turning a domain transfer into a name 
> >record? I cobbled together a little perl script to do this, but it only 
> >deals with a few records types. I was hoping there was a robust tool out 
> >there to do this sort of thing.
> 
> The output of "dig axfr" is in the same format as a DB file, so you
> shouldn't need to do much.  The only problem is that it shows the SOA
> record twice (at the beginning and end), so you should remove one of them
> (I'm not sure this is actually *required* -- they should be identical, so
> BIND may allow them both).
> 

	It's not required for BIND 9 and leaving it there will catch
	answers from broken servers that update zones contents but fail
	to tear down the connection.

	Mark
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