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Cc: 'Kristian Vaaf' <vaaf@broadpark.no>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?
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From: Francisco Reyes
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> 
> > Why are you bothering?  TinyDNS isn't the "standard" nameserver that
> > everyone and their dog has been using for time out of mind.  The people
> > that push it seem to like it because it's simpler.

I dislike monoliths, they scare me. ;-)

FWIW, a while back I (with the help of Zak Johnson) wrote awk scripts to
convert between the tinydns-data and BIND8 zonefile formats.  The script
ended up pretty complete for the tinydns-data->BIND8 conversion.  It's
converse didn't get very far; there were some severe sanity issues when
trying to expand BIND syntax into discrete records.

Eventually I got sick of it and just used axfrdns and axfr-get with manual
handling for the relatively few cases wherein standards politics got in the
way of interoperability.