topic Re: automated dns admin in Operating System - HP-UX

automated dns admin

Mark Greene_1 — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:01:07 GMT

does anyone have any tools they use to automate the administration of DNS on unix? Anytime that offices get moved, we have to do some fairly major edits to our DNS files, and I am hoping that someone has something to automate the entry of names and IPs, and updates the reverse databases before I go off and reinvent the wheel.

thanks!
mark

Re: automated dns admin

Scott Van Kalken — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:16:54 GMT

hmmmmm

when I was administering a namespace we used some C programs called "get" and "put" that would get info or put info straight into a zonefile (in the correct format).

I'm not sure if they're part of the bind distribution or not.

We just ran scripts for major updates that used these. I'll have a hunt around.

Scott.

Re: automated dns admin

Wodisch — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:18:46 GMT

Hello,

"hosts_to_named" does most of those tasks...

Re: automated dns admin

John Bolene — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:27:26 GMT

hosts_to_named is a beautiful thing

keep an updated hosts file and a hosts_to_named file and run it, let all the other machines sync to the primary dns machine, ie, put them as secondaries

do a man hosts_to_named

Re: automated dns admin

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:02:32 GMT

I have about 2,500 entries in my primary dns file right now. Putting all these entries in the host table is not an option.

mark

Re: automated dns admin

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:30:23 GMT

Here's some places to look (some things are for pay, some are free).

http://www.metainfo.com/products/metaip/index.htm
http://www.freeipdb.org/
http://www.robobijal.org/
http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

Re: automated dns admin

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:21:42 GMT

Christopher,

thanks for the links, I will check them out.

mark

Re: automated dns admin

Wodisch — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:21:08 GMT

Hello again,

it needn't be *the* hosts-files, it is a *hosts-like* file ;-)
And 2500 lines in text-file are not dangerous for HP-UX...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

Re: automated dns admin

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:40:40 GMT

Wodisch,

my mistake then, as this is an entirely different matter. I will look into this.

thanks for the follow-up,
mark