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dns-hosts-import(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual dns-hosts-import(1)

dns-hosts-import - generate DNS tables from /etc/hosts entries

dns-hosts-import [ option... ] filename...
dns-hosts-import -Help
dns-hosts-import -VERSion

The dns-hosts-import program is used to read your /etc/hosts file and generate a DNS forward map from it, as a first step to configuring DNS.

The following options are understood:


Provide some help with using the dns-hosts-import program.

Print the version of the dns-hosts-import program being executed.

All other options will produce a diagnostic error.

See the file man1/arglex.so.

See the file man1/exit.so.

If you have an /etc/hosts file which looks like this:


See the file man1/example.hosts.so.

By using the following command
% dns-hosts-import /etc/hosts hosts-tmp
%
You will see an output file of the form
$origin example.com.
@               in      soa     example.com. hostmaster.example.com. (

3 ; serial
10800 ; refresh: 3 hours
1800 ; retry: 30 minutes
604800 ; expire: 1 week
86400 ) ; minimum: 1 day mercury in a 182.168.1.1 venus in a 182.168.1.2 earth in a 182.168.1.3 mars in a 182.168.1.4 jupiter in a 182.168.1.5 saturn in a 182.168.1.6 neptune in a 182.168.1.7 uranus in a 182.168.1.8 pluto in a 182.168.1.9 lp in cname pluto
You are expected to manually edit this into the rest of the database. You especially need to put sensable values into the SOA record.

See dns-hosts(1) for how to retrieve your /etc/hosts file once you have imported it.

See the file man1/copyright.so.

See the file man1/author.so.


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