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From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Subject: Re: DNS Tools - Zone File Creation
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>I manage all my zones manually and don't mind.  I do a search and replace in
>vi.  However, I have to create a number of zone files all in one go and was
>wondering if anyone has any scripts to create the zone files.

If you use the $INCLUDE of BIND8, you can greatly simplify the zone 
files and errors and maintenance.

And if you do a lot of virtual www/ftp/smtp hosting where many 
domains have the same ip's (A records) for their www/ftp services and 
you have one or two mail servers with virtual mail hosts, then you 
can often use just one zone file for any number of separate domains.

I helped one ISP upgrade 150 zones from W2K DNS to BIND8, and with 
the above techniques, I reduced his zone files to just 4.  No enough 
of zone files bothering to develop a script for.  Adding a new zone 
for him was just duplicating a line in his named.conf with no 
modification of the common zone file.

Len



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