Introducing freeware dnsupdate - create/update (dynamic) DNS tables

[Kevin Darcy]

Why didn't you write something to allow users to maintain DNS via Dynamic
Update and a web frontend instead? You're just encouraging folks to hold onto
the /etc/hosts crutch longer than they otherwise would.


- Kevin

gopakumar.pillai at hybrid.com wrote:

> Hi Bind Users,
> Let me proudly introduce dnsupdate, a tool which can create the DNS tables
> from a hosts file and its configuration file. It can update or maintain the
> tables too. For updating hosts and alises it uses dynamic update. dnsupdate
> works with BIND 8 or higher. Have tested it on Sparc Solaris 8 and i386
> FreeBSD 4.2. I am sure it can be compiled in a variety of operating systems.
>
> I was looking for such a tool and couldn't find any. So ended up writing it.
> It is written in C language and is much faster than h2n (the script from the
> DNS and BIND book), when run in create mode.
>
> A good documentation can be found at the project web site
> http://dnsupdate.sourceforge.net.
>
> For going the project  page on sourceforge.net please visit
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnsupdate
>
> Hope this tool is helpful to u. If you have comments or suggestions you can
> send me an email at gopu at myiris.com or join the mailing list by visiting the
> web site http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dnsupdate-users
>
> Thank You
>
> --Gopu (gopu at myiris.com, gopu at hybrid.com)