Linux-Announce Digest #327, Volume #3 Sun, 10 Jan 99 21:13:22 EST Contents: Updatehosts - DNS management software (Smoot Carl-Mitchell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Updatehosts - DNS management software Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:17:59 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Version 1.0.0 Updatehosts is a system for automatically managing and generating DNS zone files using flat relational tables. Some of the features of updatehosts includes: 1) Automatic generation of DNS zone files including *.in-addr.arpa zones for an unlimited number of DNS zones. 2) Automatic generation of BIND V4 or V8 bootstrap files with support for most BIND options. 3) Automatic serial number generation in DNS zone files. 3) Automatic generation of the DHCP bootstrap file. 4) Limited support for DNS updates when using DHCP dynamic addressing. 5) Generation of static hosts files from the same set of information used for DNS zone file generation 6) Flexible input file syntax which allows additional information such as contact names, etc to be kept with all DNS information. This information can be added without impacting DNS zone file generation. 7) Tools which allow a set of administrators to manage the the nameserver configuration without requiring root access. 8) Conversion utilities to convert existing DNS zone files or static host tables into the updatehosts input file format. 9) Flexible postprocessing hooks which allow site specific command to be run after the file generation is completed. 10) General purpose tool for reading flat ASCII files as database relations. 11) Maintenance of input files under SCCS or RCS control as a user option. This is an initial open source release of the software. It is protected by the GNU software copyright and license. While it is an initial release, the software has been in use and tested for several years, so it should be quite robust. It is known to run on Sun Solaris and Linux platforms, but should run on almost any Unix system. Future plans include a Web front-end update utility. A mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been set up to share user experience with the software and also as a repository for any bug reports and related problems. Subscribe to this list by sending a subscribe request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sources can be found at: ftp://ftp.tic.com/pub/updatehosts/updatehosts-1.0.0.tar.gz updatehosts requires perl 5 and a C compiler for use. BIND 8.1.2 from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC)is highly recommended as the nameserver. Also the DHCP support is for the ISC version of DHCP. See http://www.isc.org for the availability of this software. Smoot Carl-Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNpf/x1rUI/eHXJZ5AQECYAQAuEGzhgToIm0PlsqSn8ByUSJiMkSfltrk rzW1sApDMEf3EZzZa8prlyGY6paKGQ04l7cNilPPUCIBT0swyOVzi+29SX4BiEOf x2sl6p34csdLgTDRJMjzN+B7rcboAIamxlNtk1YpTyI/YfpI7aWw2ZLunJmnWwEW 7RsOtvNhOyY= =U9XZ =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can submit announcements to be moderated via: Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Announce Digest ******************************
