NAME

dns-hosts-import - generate DNS tables from /etc/hosts entries

SYNOPSIS

dns-hosts-import [ option... ] filename...
dns-hosts-import -Help
dns-hosts-import -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

The dns-hosts-import program is used to read your /etc/hosts file and generate a DNS forward map from it, as a first step to configuring DNS.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

-Help: Provide some help with using the dns-hosts-import program.
-VERSion: Print the version of the dns-hosts-import program being executed.

All other options will produce a diagnostic error.

See the file man1/arglex.so.

See the file man1/exit.so.

EXAMPLE

If you have an /etc/hosts file which looks like this:


See the file man1/example.hosts.so.

By using the following command

% dns-hosts-import /etc/hosts hosts-tmp
%

You will see an output file of the form

$origin example.com.
@               in      soa     example.com. hostmaster.example.com. (
                                3       ; serial
                                10800   ; refresh: 3 hours
                                1800    ; retry: 30 minutes
                                604800  ; expire: 1 week
                                86400 ) ; minimum: 1 day
mercury         in      a       182.168.1.1
venus           in      a       182.168.1.2
earth           in      a       182.168.1.3
mars            in      a       182.168.1.4
jupiter         in      a       182.168.1.5
saturn          in      a       182.168.1.6
neptune         in      a       182.168.1.7
uranus          in      a       182.168.1.8
pluto           in      a       182.168.1.9
lp              in      cname   pluto

You are expected to manually edit this into the rest of the database. You especially need to put sensable values into the SOA record.

See dns-hosts(1) for how to retrieve your /etc/hosts file once you have imported it.

See the file man1/copyright.so.

See the file man1/author.so.