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<TITLE>Other Useful Tools</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node92.html">Serial Line IP</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node86.html">Running named</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node90.html">Verifying the Name Server </A>
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION008250000">Other Useful Tools</A></H2>
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<A NAME="3658"></A>
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There are a few tools that can help you with your tasks as a BIND
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administrator. I will briefly describe two of them here.
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Please refer to the documentation that comes with these tools for
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information on how to use them.
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<A NAME="3704"></A>
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<A NAME="3705"></A>
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<A NAME="3706"></A>
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hostcvt is a tool that helps you with your initial
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BIND configuration by converting your /etc/hosts file
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into master files for named. It generates both the forward
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(A) and reverse mapping (PTR) entries, and takes care of aliases
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and the like. Of course, it won't do the whole job for you, as you may
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still want to tune the timeout values in the SOA record, for instance,
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or add MX records and the like. Still, it may help you save a few
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aspirins. hostcvt is part of the BIND source, but can also
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be found as a standalone package on a few FTP servers.
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<A NAME="3667"></A>
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<A NAME="3707"></A>
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<A NAME="3669"></A>
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After setting up your name server, you may want to test your
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configuration. The ideal (and, to my knowledge) only tool for
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this is dnswalk, a perl-based package that
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walks your DNS database, looking for common mistakes and
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verifying that the information is consistent. dnswalk
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has been released on comp.sources.misc recently, and
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should be available on all FTP sites that archive this group
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(ftp.uu.net should be a safe bet if you don't know
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of any such site near you).
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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