| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi All, Every time customer uses make_hosts to generate a new hosts.db, make_hosts loses all include's, MX and HINFO records, and a quick look in make_hosts did not show ways to preserve this records. Changing hosts.db each time make_hosts is executed is a dangerous and tedious task and probably I am forgetting something to avoid this. Could someone clarify this matter to me ? Thanks in advance, Carlos Meyer MCS/CSC-BR
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| 9915.1 | BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne | A wretched hive of scum and villainy | Thu May 22 1997 02:45 | 12 | |
make_hosts only knows what was in the hosts file in the first place. This
obviously doesn't include MX, HINFO, etc. Eveery time you run make_hosts, you
blow away your hosts.db and start again.
The obvious answer is "don't run make_hosts". ("Doctor, it hurts when I do
this.").
I use make_hosts (if I use it at all) as a quick way to populate hosts.db, and
ignore it forever after. If you want to keep your hosts.db file current, edit
hosts.db, not hosts.
PJDM
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| 9915.2 | Yes, it hurts !. Thanks. | VAXRIO::16.179.32.55::Meyer | Thu May 22 1997 09:27 | 1 | |
| 9915.3 | try h2n | INDYX::ram | Ram Rao, PBPGINFWMY | Thu May 22 1997 13:35 | 10 |
None of my larger customers use make_hosts. Some of them use h2n, which is a publicly available PERL script that does the right things for most customers. To check out DNS management tools (like h2n) see: http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/tools.html Ram | |||||