way to clean up db files

Vinny Abello vinny at tellurian.com
Wed Jul 14 00:30:40 UTC 2004


Great, thanks for the information. :)

At 08:28 PM 7/13/2004, Justin Randall wrote:
>Using $GENERATE will also work for A records, however the proper notation 
>would be as such:
>
>
>$GENERATE       37-62   unused-10-168-24-$     A    10.168.24.$
>
>This is what I used for my unused private IP space.  Forward queries 
>behave perfectly normal.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>>From: Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com>
>>To: "Sebastian Castro Avila" <secastro at nic.cl>
>>CC: gopher2 at sdf.lonestar.org, bind-users at isc.org, secastro at nic.cl
>>Subject: Re: way to clean up db files
>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:49:44 -0400
>>
>>At 02:57 PM 7/13/2004, Sebastian Castro Avila wrote:
>> >On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:46:06 +0000 (UTC), <gopher2 at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > >   my db files i have 30 lines like this
>> > >
>> > > vpn_client1             A               192.168.5.225
>> > > vpn_client2             A               192.168.5.226
>> > > vpn_client3             A               192.168.5.227
>> > > vpn_client4             A               192.168.5.228
>> > > ......
>> > > vpn_client30             A               192.168.5.254
>> > >
>> >
>> >Using GENERATE directive
>> >
>> >You should use something like
>> >
>> >$GENERATE 1-30 vpn_client$ A 192.168.5.${224}
>>
>>Just commenting on this, but I remember reading that the $GENERATE
>>statement is only valid for PTR records. Has this changed or has this not
>>been the case? I think I read this in the O'Reilly DNS and BIND 4th Edition
>>book but I'm not positive. I'm very interested to know if this works as I
>>have not used it for that reason in forward zones.
>>
>> > > also my reverse lookup is the same
>> > >
>> >
>> >Here use
>> >
>> >$GENERATE 225-254 $ PTR vpn_cliente${-224}.example.org.
>> >
>> >
>> > > 225                     PTR     vpnclient1.example.org.
>> > > 226                     PTR     vpnclient2.example.org.
>> > > 227                     PTR     vpnclient3.example.org.
>> > > ....
>> > > 254                     PTR     vpnclient30.example.org.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > is there any way i can do this on just one line
>> > > i think i seen it before but not sure
>> > > thanks
>> > >
>> >
>> >Good luck!
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > gopher2 at sdf.lonestar.org
>> > > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Sebastian E. Castro Avila             sebastian at nic.cl
>> >Administrador de DNS, NIC Chile
>> >Fono: (2) 9407705                  Fax  : (2) 9407701
>>
>>
>>Vinny Abello
>>Network Engineer
>>Server Management
>>vinny at tellurian.com
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Vinny Abello
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