dots in hostnames problem
Phil Mayers
p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Mar 11 16:00:34 UTC 2011
On 11/03/11 15:53, John Wobus wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Matt Rae wrote:
>> Thanks guys, sounds like a solution would be to transfer the zone
>> files outside of bind. I'll give some of the suggestions a try.
>>
>> Matt
>
> I can't help but be curious. What problem would be solved by
> transferring the zone files outside of bind?
Using:
dig @server zone axfr
...gives you a "raw" zone, suitable for parsing by simple scripts e.g.
awk/sed/grep - the output omits any of the $ORIGIN or other bind zone
macros, and has fully-qualified names and data in all fields.
Similar effect as named-compilezone
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