Generating /etc/hosts from zone files?

[Marion Hakanson]

John,

If it's "dns2hosts", "mkhosts" and "dnsparse.pl", then it's mine.  The
package was called "dnsparse", and it's (still) at:

	ftp://ftp.cse.ogi.edu/pub/dnsparse-2.1.tar.gz

Regards,

-- 
Marion Hakanson <hakanson at cse.ogi.edu>
CSE Computing Facilities



> Hi... I'm installing a new bind 8.2.1 server on Solaris. Our old Linux
> server had a utility which would generate a new /etc/hosts file based
> on the DNS zone files.
> 
> It was a mix of perl and C. Various pieces of it were called dns2unix,
> mkhosts, and dnsparse.pl.
> 
> It was written by hakanson at cse.ogi.edu.
> 
> I've been scouring the net for hours trying to find the original
> sources or an equivalent. I've found tons of utilities that will
> generate zone files from hosts files, but not the other way around.
> 
> Surely this is a not-uncommon task.
> 
> Can someone point me towards something useful?
> 
> thanks
> 
> johnS
> 
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