Parsing an AXFR zone transfer into a name record

[Jobe Bittman]

Thanks for the link. Although, I already wrote my own and have completed my 
upgrade to bind9. What is nice output? You should link some sample output 
onto your page.

At 10:23 AM 12/5/2001 -0600, Waltner, Steve wrote:
>I wrote a Perl script called printzone which is at
>http://homepage.mac.com/swaltner/dns/ that uses the Net::DNS Perl module to
>do a zone transfer and print the data "nicely". It does sorting on the
>records based on my idea of a properly sorted zone file and spits the zone
>to stdout. Based on this thread, it sounds like it might suit your needs.
>
>Steve
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Jobe Bittman
> > Sent:         Monday, December 3, 2001 7:09 PM
> > To:   Kevin Darcy
> > Cc:   bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject:      Re: Parsing an AXFR zone transfer into a name record
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >