Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)

FreeBSD Manual Pages

  
 
  

home | help
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 gen-
     erate 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 executed.

     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 im-
     ported it.

							     dns-hosts-import(1)

Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dns-hosts-import&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+15.1.quarterly>

home | help