Re: Parsing Zonefiles

Unless you have a good reason not to I would be considering generating the zone file directly from your database. It is a technique described in Perl for System Administration and saves parsing the zone file at all.

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Re^2: Parsing Zonefiles by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 05, 2004 at 11:33 UTC
Or even better, if you are using bind 9.1 or newer then you can use use LDAP as the storage backend and do away with the zonefiles altogether - you can read about this stuff here. /J\	[reply]
Re^2: Parsing Zonefiles by Elijah_A (Novice) on Aug 05, 2004 at 06:52 UTC
Hmmm... now that you mention it... it kinda makes me wonder why I did that in the first place O_o. Anyway, got an online version of that book or the part about zone files?	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing Zonefiles by greenFox (Vicar) on Aug 05, 2004 at 07:27 UTC
Looks like the sample chapter is "Log Files" so you are out of luck, you will have to buy a copy. -- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho	[reply]
Re^4: Parsing Zonefiles by Elijah_A (Novice) on Aug 05, 2004 at 07:39 UTC
From your link I found the sample codes in tar.gz. I downloaded 'em and found PSA-Chapter05, which contains the DNS part. Thanks =) The codes are kinda overwhelming but I think I can understand some of it.	[reply]