On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Sven Echternach wrote:
> Some ideas:
>
> - The mostly discussed UNIX "diff" did not work for me (esp. for files over
> 100 MB in size).
> - I tried to write up something in Perl, but it's not 100% functional yet.
> Also it requires the two zone files to have the domains in the same order.
> With a small awk and uniq script, you can at least extract a list of the
> domain names.
>
> Does anyone know how the order of domains in the zone files is made up?
> Unfortunately new domains do not seem to be appended at the end or
> beginning. And sorting such a huge file (e.g. using UNIX "sort") does not
> work either with regular resources.
I assume your playing with the dot.com zone file - what is it these days
??? should be over 1.5 gigs.
The way we handled it was to rewrite diff. The zone may not be in
any specific order. Do you ftp the zone - or axfr it?
Your could always sort the records into mysql and then manipulate the data
there.
Joe Baptista
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
>
> Cheers, Sven
>
> At 23:55 01.06.2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >Does anyone have a recommendation on what software to utilize to compare
> >sequential zone files? Needless to say, something like Excel crashes at the
> >mere thought...
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
>
>
>
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