dhcpd creating corrupt DNS entries via DDNS

[Ted Lemon]

On May 31, 2013, at 10:12 AM, "Neff, Glen" <glen.neff at emc.com> wrote:
> In authoring the script, it was written with the unfortunate assumption that since it was dumping forward records already stored and accepted by BIND (dig @<authoritative resolver> -t AXFR <forward zone>), that I didn't need to cleanse the data to build the reverse.  Well, "cat\032/etc/FRIENDLYHOSTNAME.hop.usd.lab.emc.com" broke that process & assumption.  That's how I knew.

Eep.   I think you want to make that script bulletproof with respect to exciting data.   I guess you can do it as easily in the server as the script, but I suspect the tools you have available in the script are more flexible.