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dns-hosts-import(1) General Commands Manual dns-hosts-import(1) NAME dns-hosts-import - generate DNS tables from /etc/hosts entries SYNOPSIS dns-hosts-import [ option... ] filename... dns-hosts-import -Help dns-hosts-import -VERSion DESCRIPTION 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. OPTIONS The following options are understood: -Help Provide some help with using the dns-hosts-import program. -VERSion Print the version of the dns-hosts-import program being exe- cuted. All other options will produce a diagnostic error. EXAMPLE If you have an /etc/hosts file which looks like this: 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. dns-hosts-import(1)
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