hosts_to_na.1m (2010 09)

hosts_to_named(1M) hosts_to_named(1M)

(BIND 9.3)

5. Create name server data for multiple domains

div1.inc.com, div2.inc.com and

div3.inc.com. You must declare 15.18.1.1 as the host in the start-of-authority (SOA) record for

all the domains. Also, create a secondary boot ﬁle from the primary boot ﬁle listing 15.18.1.1 and

15.18.2.1 as the servers to load the data from, to all the domains. Declare 15.18.2.1 as an authorita-

tive name server for the domain div2.inc.com in addition to the default server.

$ hosts_to_named -f option_file

option_file contains the following lines:

-d div1.inc.com

-n 15.18.1

-d div2.inc.com

-n 15.18.2

-S 15.18.2.1

-d div3.inc.com

-n 15.18.3

-h 15.18.1.1

-z 15.18.1.1

-z 15.18.2.1

AUTHOR

hosts_to_named was developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/hosts The host table

named.boot Primary server boot ﬁle (version 4.x)

named.conf Primary server boot ﬁle (version 8.x or 9.x)

boot.cacheonly Caching only server boot ﬁle (version 4.x)

conf.cacheonly Caching only server boot ﬁle (version 8.x or 9.x)

boot.sec.save Secondary server boot ﬁle (version 4.x)

conf.sec.save Secondary server boot ﬁle (version 8.x or 9.x)

boot.sec Secondary server boot ﬁle (version 4.x)

conf.sec Secondary server boot ﬁle (version 8.x or 9.x)

db.127.0.0 Pointer information for 127.0.0.1

db.cache Stub cache ﬁle for root server addresses

db.root Data for servers for the root domain

db.DOMAIN Address and other data for a domain

db.DOMAIN.in-addr Pointer data for all network-numbers

db.NET Pointer data for a network-number

db.IP6.INT Pointer data for a IPv6 network-number

db.IP6.ARPA Pointer data for a IPv6 network-number in IP6.ARPA domain