Convert Bind DNS zone into PTR records
15 Jun 2005The following script I made in order to convert the forward DNS records in a /var/named/db.[domain] file into the correct format for a reverse DNS db.[subnet prefix] file.
``
#!/bin/sh
(…)
DNSROOT=/var/named
PREFIX=$1
DOMAIN=$2
shift 2
DNSPRE=$DNSROOT/db.$PREFIX
DNSDOM=$DNSROOT/db.$DOMAIN
echo “; save this in $DNSPRE”
(
if [ -f $DNSDOM ] ; then
cat $DNSDOM
| grep $PREFIX
| grep -w “A”
| sed “s/$PREFIX.*//g”
| gawk “BEGIN {OFS = “t” ;} {print $4,”IN”,”PTR”,$1 “.$DOMAIN.”,”;; FROM basename $DNSDOM” }”
fi</p>
if [ -f $DNSPRE ] ; then
cat $DNSPRE
| grep -w "PTR"
| gawk "BEGIN {OFS = "t" ;} {print $1,$2,$3,$4,";; FROM `basename $DNSPRE` "; }"
fi )
| sort -n
| uniq --check-chars=3
``
You would call it as follows:
`revdns.sh 192.168.110 internal.example.com > new.db.192.168.110` and then replace the records of the original db.192.168.110 with the records of the new file. The script still requires manual intervention (you cannot pipe the result straight into a live Bind config file) but saves a lot of typing!
Example of the output:
`
201 IN PTR james.internal.example.be. ;; FROM db.internal.example.com
202 IN PTR wilbur.internal.example.be. ;; FROM db.internal.example.com
216 IN PTR appprd1.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
217 IN PTR appprd2.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
218 IN PTR appprd3.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
219 IN PTR appprd4.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
220 IN PTR appprd5.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
221 IN PTR appprd6.internal.example.com. ;; FROM db.192.168.110
`
