automated dns admin

[Mark Greene_1]

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

[Scott Van Kalken]

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.

[Wodisch]

Hello,

"hosts_to_named" does most of those tasks...

[John Bolene]

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

[Mark Greene_1]

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

[Christopher Caldwell]

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/

[Mark Greene_1]

Christopher,

thanks for the links, I will check them out.

mark

[Wodisch]

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

[Mark Greene_1]

Wodisch,

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

thanks for the follow-up,
mark