ldap2zone

   This  is  a tool that reads info for a zone from LDAP and constructs a
   standard  plain ascii zone file. The LDAP information has to be stored
   using  the  dnszone  schema.  For  more  information on how to use the
   schema, see this howto. The schema is also used by BIND with this LDAP
   back-end.  This  first  version  is  pretty basic and may contain some
   bugs,  reports  welcome. It also requires the OpenLDAP LDAP library. I
   might generalize this if people want.

Usage

   The  basic  usage  is  just  ldap2zone test.com ldap://ldapserver/base
   172800.  It  will then write a zone file to standard out. You can also
   specify  a  serial number as a 4th argument. It will then check if the
   serial  number  matches  the  serial  number in LDAP. The program will
   return  different exit codes depending on whether they match, and only
   write the zone to standard out if they are different. This can be used
   in  a  script  that  reloads  the  zone  in  the name server if it has
   changed. The script would be something like:
#!/bin/sh
DIR = /local/domain/pz
ZONE = test.no
SERIAL = $(grep " ; serial" $DIR/$ZONE"| cut....)
ldap2zone $ZONE ldap://ldapserver/base 172800 $SERIAL > /tmp/$ZONE &&
{
        mv /tmp/$ZONE $DIR/$ZONE
        rndc ... reload $ZONE
}

   This is not a complete working script but should give you some idea.

Mailing list

   If you have questions, problems etc., please check my mailing list for
   issues  related  to  DNS and LDAP. To join the list, go here. There is
   also an archive.

Releases

   ldap2zone-0.1 2005-04-24
   This  is  the  very  first  release  and  consists  of  just  the file
   ldap2zone.c.
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   Last modified: 2005-05-10