$Id: README,v 2.6 1995/12/24 20:17:42 hakanson Rel $ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- dnsparse kit, version 2.1 Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, Marion Hakanson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this directory are some tools for manipulating Domain Name System master files, and for converting to /etc/hosts format. There are also a couple of tools (simphosts, sorthosts) for dealing with host tables. To run dns2hosts, or anything which uses the dnsparse.pl library (currently just dnstest and dnsmkptr), one must first compile "dnslex.c" into a program "dnslex" in the current directory, as the "dnsparse.pl" library will invoke it as "./dnslex". Feel free to modify the invocation path to suit your needs. The "dnsparse.pl" file must also be somewhere in the perl library search path, and perl must be available. Typically how one generates new host table(s) from the DNS zone files is to have the zones and their master file pathnames in "zonelist", and then use the enclosed "mkhosts" script to spit out zone-specific files. NOTE: you may need to edit by hand to reorder multiply-homed hosts! To Do: Write some real documentation. Manual pages, too. The dnsmkptr program is really simplistic -- needs to produce split zone files (net/subnet), rather than just a single output. These things should really be more automated.... The dns2hosts output would be "more like the nameserver" if it also simulated the "sortlist" functionality. This would require another option to specify the target network that queries are coming from, and maybe also the home network. Complicated, ugly, and at the least it requires further study. -- Marion Hakanson <hakanson@cse.ogi.edu>
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