Maintenance Tools
A large class of the tools called maintenance tools helps you maintain zone files in various ways. The following are some of them.
h2n
h2n is a popular tool; it's a Perl script written by Cricket Liu, one of the authors of the O'Reilly book DNS and BIND. h2n formats a /etc/hosts style file into DNS zone files and a BIND 4 or 8 configuration file. The software is available from the O'Reilly FTP site, but the most updated version is included in the BIND 8 contrib bundle in the directory nutshell. It's a simple, yet effective tool. Consider this /etc/hosts file:
195.0.166.251 lookfar.linpro.no 195.0.166.130 rcp.linpro.no rcp 195.0.166.200 nfsd.linpro.no nfsd 195.0.166.201 false.linpro.no false 195.0.166.2 mail.linpro.no mail ...
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