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dns-ethers-import(1) General Commands Manual dns-ethers-import(1) NAME dns-ethers-import - generate DNS tables from /etc/ethers entries SYNOPSIS dns-ethers-import [ option... ] filename... dns-ethers-import -Help dns-ethers-import -VERSion DESCRIPTION The dns-ethers-import program is used to read your /etc/ethers file and produce a DNS-formatted database. This is used to maintain a database with the IP address and the MAC address in the same file. This helps find omis- sions and inconsistencies. OPTIONS The following options are understood: -Domain name This option may be used to set the domain name in the generated file. Defaults to you system domain name, if set, otherwise ``ex- ample.com''. -Help Provide some help with using the dns-ethers-import program. -VERSion Print the version of the dns-ethers-import program being executed. EXAMPLE If you have an /etc/ethers file which looks like this: By using the following command % dns-ethers-import /etc/ethers ethers-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 ether a 2:7:1:f:b7:fb venus ether a 2:60:8c:2d:20:c4 earth ether a 8:0:20:79:1f:d mars ether a aa:0:4:0:86:53 jupiter ether a 8:0:2b:99:49:ad saturn ether a 0:40:10:56:43:57 neptune ether a 0:aa:0:69:7c:5b uranus ether a 0:0:e8:a4:0:25 pluto ether a 8:0:9:d:2a:87 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-ethers(1) for how to retrieve your /etc/ethers file once you have imported it. dns-ethers-import(1)
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