How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

[Kristian Vaaf]

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.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
Date: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:37 pm
Subject: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

> 
> Why are you bothering?  TinyDNS isn't the "standard" nameserver that
> everyone and their dog has been using for time out of mind.  The 
> peoplethat push it seem to like it because it's simpler, that is 
> all well and
> good
> but you still have to live in the world where everyone else uses 
> The Big
> B,
> so I think the onus is on the TinyDNS people to understand what the
> defacto standard is, not the other way around.
> 
> If I want to ride a motorcycle on the road I have to understand the 
> lawsthat
> govern cars, but car drivers don't have to understand the laws that 
> covermotorcyclists.  That is the penalty you pay for being in a 
> minority, too
> bad, so sad, but the world doesen't give you any sympathy, so why are
> you?
> 
> If you have a situation where you have an inexperienced person that is
> supposed to be administering the zone files, and you don't trust him,
> then
> load webmin and have them use that.  The bind config module in webmin
> is very good, we have been using it for years.  In fact I strongly
> recommend
> against editing the zone files by hand, since formatting errors can 
> makenamed act very funny.
> 
> Ted
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >[owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf
> >Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:10 AM
> >To: questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?
> >
> >
> >
> >Hello!
> >
> >I am trying to provide the administrator of my upcoming NS2
> >with my zonefiles
> >in the TinyDNS format. But I am having some trouble
> >comprehending its format.
> >
> >Perhaps the simplicity got to me.
> >
> >Here is my BIND setup: http://www.home.no/hedhnta/namedb
> >
> >Here is my imagined TinyDNS equivalent, written as simply as 
> possible:>
> >+mydomain.com::*
> >
> >+ns1.mydomain.com:213.187.112.70
> >+ns2.mydomain.com:217.155.55.77
> >+ns3.mydomain.com:208.139.133.90
> >
> >@mydomain.com::ninja
> >
> >+ninja.mydomain.lan:192.168.187.1
> >+halim.mydomain.lan:192.168.187.2
> >
> >+domain1.com::*
> >+domain2.com::*
> >+domain3.com::*
> >+domain4.com::*
> >+domain5.com::*
> >
> >I have googled like crazy to find a decent script to do this
> >conversion for me.
> >This was all I found, and it didn't go too well:
> >
> >./bind-to-tinydns example.com output output.tmp < db.erralionic.com
> >warning: line 8: ignoring out-of-zone data
> >fatal: line 16: RR tried to inherit owner from previous record,
> >but there was no previous RR
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
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