bind9: automatically generate reverse zone file?

Jan Harnisch jh3 at stud.mw.tu-muenchen.de
Thu Aug 21 19:35:53 UTC 2003


Hi Kevin,

and thank you for your answer.

> No, BIND has no way to automatically generate the reverse zone files.

Whew... so at least, I didn't overlook something.

> Among other things, it would have to know your local convention for how
> to deal with multiple A records pointing to the same IP address.

Ahaa, didn't think about that. Thank you.

> Generally speaking, forward/reverse synchronization is something that is
> handled with whatever frontend/middleware tool you use for maintaining
> DNS.

Hmm, sorry for slowly getting off topic, but do you know about any 
recommendable tool for doing this? Here I have an LDAP server, so I had 
a short look at ldap2dns, but I would prefer a more simple, text-file 
based solution, such as having both databases generated by a script 
based on a hosts file or similar. I am trying to make my DNS server 
machine as foolproof as possible, so attaching other complex software 
isn't my preferred way to go; I just want to eliminate inconsistencies 
with the lowest possible effort.
Greetings & Thanks,

Jan



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