Re: Cleaning up DNS zone files...

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Cleaning up DNS zone files...
\ Forrest Aldrich (18 Jan 2007)
. \ Dawn Connelly (18 Jan 2007)
. \ Edward Lewis (18 Jan 2007)
. \ Peter Dambier (18 Jan 2007)
. \ Sebastian E. Castro Avila (18 Jan 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Cleaning up DNS zone files...
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Sebastian E. Castro Avila
Date:	18 Jan 2007

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:37:06 -0300, Forrest Aldrich <forrie>
wrote:

> I've inherited a slew of DNS zonefiles which need to be cleaned up -
> mostly formatting.
>
> I can use tools like dnslint to indentify errors; however, I wonder if
> someone has a slick hack (script, regex) that can be utilized to run
> through and reformat the zonefiles (forward and reverse) to get them in
> order and tidy.
>

Or you can try to use "named-checkzone" with -D option (Dump zone file in
canonical format) and -o <filename> option (Write zone output to
<filename>) to get the same result.

Kind Regards
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

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Sebastian E. Castro Avila sebastian
Administrador de DNS, NIC Chile