Re: Zone Files

From: Chronos (chronos@vic.bc.ca)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 20:32:23 EDT


This may sound like a dumb question.
Can you import it into MS SQL server ??

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From: <pccf@pccf.net>
To: "Sven Echternach" <sven@sec.de>
Cc: "Ken Hirsch" <KAHirsch@san.rr.com>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Zone Files

>
> 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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