bind9: automatically generate reverse zone file?

[Eric Robibaro]

You might want to look into mkrdns which has a system(not a perfect
one, but it works) to do just what you want with regular bind text
files.  It's not a part of bind, but it will read bind's config and
apply reasonable guesses, and a set if include/excludes, so your
reverse dns will make sense after some effort
(now if only I had the time to finish my hack so it takes up the /32
networks my network provider makes me use)
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:35:53 +0200, Jan Harnisch
<jh3 at stud.mw.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

>Hi Kevin,
>
>and thank you for your answer.
>
>> No, BIND has no way to automatically generate the reverse zone files.
>
>Whew... so at least, I didn't overlook something.
>
>> Among other things, it would have to know your local convention for how
>> to deal with multiple A records pointing to the same IP address.
>
>Ahaa, didn't think about that. Thank you.
>
>> Generally speaking, forward/reverse synchronization is something that is
>> handled with whatever frontend/middleware tool you use for maintaining
>> DNS.
>
>Hmm, sorry for slowly getting off topic, but do you know about any 
>recommendable tool for doing this? Here I have an LDAP server, so I had 
>a short look at ldap2dns, but I would prefer a more simple, text-file 
>based solution, such as having both databases generated by a script 
>based on a hosts file or similar. I am trying to make my DNS server 
>machine as foolproof as possible, so attaching other complex software 
>isn't my preferred way to go; I just want to eliminate inconsistencies 
>with the lowest possible effort.
>Greetings & Thanks,
>
>Jan
>