Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:57:53 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS? Message-ID: <20060101185753.GA17967@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20060101051426.GA61018@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <20060101013324.4F7E016A422@hub.freebsd.org> <20060101051426.GA61018@ns.museum.rain.com>
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2005, James Long wrote: >> Message: 9 >> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:42:50 +0100 >> From: Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> >> Subject: Re: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS? >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> >> Cc: questions@freebsd.org >> Message-ID: <4bf4fa5641bf.43b6a6fa@broadpark.no> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> You got some messed up spaces, or maybe it's me? >> >> Anyway. I totally agree to what you're saying. I am running BIND >> myself and I am not changing. But this person who manages my >> upcoming NS2, he is the one running TinyDNS, and he is among >> the smartest software developers I know of, so his reason to use >> TinyDNS is not to be questioned. >> >> Thank you. > >If we can't question his reasons, how about his ability? > >If one of the smartest software developers you know doesn't know how >to do a zone transfer and write a shell script to massage the text >file into whatever form the software of his choice requires, then I >think you need to get out and meet more software develpers. It doesn't require a lot of skill to read the djbdns documentation to learn how to use the tcpclient program to do zone transfers from any authoritative name server that allows the transfers. This will do a zone transfer for example.com creating the tinydns data file. tcpclient $server domain axfr-get example.com data data.tmp Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S. Burroughs
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