How to parse a bind9.x config file (named.conf?)

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

'd evening, dear monkers,

just wondering if there is new knowledge around regarding the ways available to parse bind9.x config files (named.conf).

I've had a look on SuperSearch and found an - older - node (157596) containing some ideas, but so far I'm rather unhappy with everything I tried (admittedly, rather superficial, stepping back at the first problem encountered with each approach).

Here's what I looked over so far:

BIND::Conf_Parser - doesn't deal with 9.x
BIND::Config::Parser - bails out with 'Bad text' on my named.conf (which is working ok, of course).
Cpanel - near to impossible to cut out something usable outside cpanel
Webmin - seems to deal only with bind 8.x
the /usr/sbin/named-checkconf utility packed with bind.9 - gives just an OK/not ok verdict upon named.conf, no way to store the underlying structure.

Is there some other way to have an (reasonable) easy ride with this?

Many thanks.

Comment on How to parse a bind9.x config file (named.conf?)

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Re: How to parse a bind9.x config file (named.conf?) by BazB (Priest) on Nov 04, 2006 at 00:41 UTC
I know the maintainer of BIND::Config::Parser - he's a reasonable chap and is happy to receive bug reports and/or patches. I suggest you drop him an email. If the information in this post is inaccurate, or just plain wrong, don't just downvote - please post explaining what's wrong. That way everyone learns.	[reply]
Re: How to parse a bind9.x config file (named.conf?) by cosimo (Hermit) on Nov 05, 2006 at 10:28 UTC
Hi dear anonymous, here it is my first (rough) attempt at parsing BIND 9 style config files. It was meant to be integrated in Config::Auto. Check out Config::Auto version 0.17. http://search.cpan.org/src/COSIMO/Config-Auto-0.17/lib/Config/Auto.pm Be careful: this code (the `bind_style()` function) has been removed from v0.18 because it was preliminary code, and the final plan was to integrate with Bind::Config::Parser. I made some experiments trying to parse files with that module, but without success... IIRC, in the Config::Auto 0.17 distribution I put a test script, which works on a sample named.conf file. You could take those as a start point.	[reply] [d/l]