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Re: hostcvt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Mon Oct 28 17:30:45 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:16:06 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft,com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: "Juan A. Pons" <jpons@iacnet.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961028084109.12724J-100000@taz.med.iacnet.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Juan A. Pons wrote:
> This might be somewhat unrelated. I am looking for the hostcvt utility.
> This program converts a /etc/hosts file into an equivalent for DNS to use.
> I have been looking high and low w/o any sucess. Did find some sources but
> they seem to have been botched up. If anyone has a version that works or
> better yet a binary, I would greatly appreciate it if they sent it to me!
The utility I have used in the past is called 'h2n' and is mentioned in
the DNS & Bind book from O'Reilly. It's a Perl script and should be
available from ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/dnsbind/ in the
tarball there.
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