Parsing an AXFR zone transfer into a name record

[Jobe Bittman]

What I am trying to do is get my master files cleaned up so I can upgrade 
to bind 9.2. Several thousand are in pitiful shape and worked fine under 
bind8 but gave me some trouble when I moved to bind9. Plus, I want to 
standardize all my master files so they are easier to work with. I'll try 
with Net:DNS tonight.

Thanks for the input.

At 07:22 PM 12/3/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>It's still not clear what you are trying to do. Are you trying to roll 
>your own
>"named-xfer"? Why?
>
>If you're trying to develop some sort of "zone browser" tool using Perl, 
>why not
>just use the Net::DNS module and ditch "dig" completely? That's what I do. 
>Then
>you can output the zone data any way you want.
>
>
>- kevin
>
>Jobe Bittman wrote:
>
> > Yes. I don't like the ttls on every line either because I don't want to
> > update my perl code for parsing master files. I manned dig but I dont get
> > how the +<query-option> works. I can do a pfmin which I assumed was just a
> > combination of some of the other query-options. But dig with +Header =no
> > doesn't appear to affect the output of my dig.
> >
> > This is the output im shooting for:
> > $TTL 86400
> > $ORIGIN domain.com.
> > @       IN      SOA             @               hostmaster.dnsserver.net. (
> >                                  2001113003      ; serial (YYYYMMDDn)
> >                                  108000          ; refresh
> >                                  3600            ; retry
> >                                  604800          ; expire
> >                                  86400           ; minimum
> >                          )
> >
> >                          IN      NS      ns1.tns.net.
> >                          IN      NS      ns2.tns.net.
> >                          IN      MX 0    mail.domain.com.
> >                          IN      MX 10   mail.dnsserver.net.
> >                          IN      MX 20   mail2.dnsserver.net.
> >                          IN      A       1.1.1.1
> > localhost           IN      A       127.0.0.1
> > www                 IN      CNAME   @
> > ftp                    IN      CNAME   @
> > mail              IN    A       1.1.1.1
> >
> > If my format or times suck, please tell me.
> >
> > At 11:23 PM 12/3/2001 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
> > >In article <9uh11j$9p2 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jobe Bittman  <jobe at tns.net> 
> wrote:
> > > >Are there any tools out there for turning a domain transfer into a name
> > > >record? I cobbled together a little perl script to do this, but it only
> > > >deals with a few records types. I was hoping there was a robust tool out
> > > >there to do this sort of thing.
> > >
> > >The output of "dig axfr" is in the same format as a DB file, so you
> > >shouldn't need to do much.  The only problem is that it shows the SOA
> > >record twice (at the beginning and end), so you should remove one of them
> > >(I'm not sure this is actually *required* -- they should be identical, so
> > >BIND may allow them both).
> > >
> > >--
> > >Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> > >Genuity, Woburn, MA
> > >*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to 
> newsgroups.
> > >Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
> > >group.