Module / snippets for manipulating BIND zone files, and named.conf ?

andye has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a module, or some snippets, or whatever, for doing basic manipulation of BIND zone files, and named.conf.

I'd like to be able to create a new zone, or delete an existing zone. They'll all follow pretty much the same template.

I could sit down and write this, but other people must have done it so many times that I was surprised not to find anything on CPAN (perhaps I've missed something obvious). Also, not knowing BIND very well, I'm afraid there might be Hidden Traps.

I've already found: Net::DNS::Update, BIND::Conf::Parser, Net::Bind.

All assistance appreciated.
Cheers,
andy.

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Re: Module / snippets for manipulating BIND zone files, and named.conf ? by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 20, 2001 at 00:36 UTC
You might like DNS::ZoneFile. Oh, and it's BIND::Conf_Parser, not BIND::Conf::Parser. `2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas' Segmentation fault 2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Module / snippets for manipulating BIND zone files, and named.conf ? by dug (Chaplain) on Dec 20, 2001 at 01:31 UTC
Also, the appropriately named webmin bind DNS server standard module. If what you are looking for is a nice admin interface to not so nice config files, it does a good job of not breaking things, and has an impressive list of "standard modules." It is also fairly well documented, and of course is written in perl. dug -- perl -e 'do $outrageously; $bad and sub($versive, $things) { tell($me)};'</code>	[reply]