- Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 2.1
+ Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 2.2
- (c) 1998 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+ (c) 1997--1999 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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NSC is a set of shell and M4 scripts for easy maintenance of all domain name
-server files. It requires BIND 8.X, GNU bash and GNU m4 to be installed on the
-system. All programs have been tested on Linux, but should work on all unices
-assuming the required packages are present.
+server files (including configuration and zone files). It requires BIND 8.X,
+GNU bash and GNU m4 to be installed on the system. All programs have been
+tested on Linux, but should work on all unices assuming the required packages
+are present.
The whole program can be used and distributed according to the terms of the
GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives
- Enjoy your new DNS setup. If everything goes OK, be happy. Else
write a bug report :-)
+ An interesting companion to this program is the Sleuth utility which checks
+consistency of DNS zones. It's written in perl with help of the DNS module,
+knows of more errors than other checkers and it's freely available at
+ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/mj/net/sleuth-1.0.tar.gz.
+
2. The Domain List File
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(check ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network for latest version).
Use chkdom <domain> <NS> to check specific domain or no
parameters to check all domains mentioned in cf/domains.
+ It's even better to use the Sleuth script mentioned in
+ the introduction.
+
+convert A simple perl script for conversion of zone files to NSC
+ domain files. Requires the DNS module (available from CPAN at
+ ftp.cpan.org).