[ On , August 28, 2001 at 10:50:53 (-0700), Paul Vixie wrote: ]
Subject: Re: DNS Parser
output. Much as it pains me to recommend the use of "nslookup" by anybody for anything, it has a reasonable way of doing this:
nslookup <<EOF | awk yada yada server $MASTER ls -t A $ZONE EOF
The new version of host (i.e. the one that's usually only slightly out of date in the BIND contrib directory, NOT the junky old useless one in the main BIND src/bin directory) is much less painful to recommend (and has equally regular and predictable output): host -a -l $ZONE $SERVER | awk 'blah' You can of course have 'host' do the filtering for only specific types of records too. For example to display only 'A' records: host -t a -l $ZONE $SERVER | awk 'blah' You can even omit the $SERVER parameter and 'host' will try all the authoritative servers until it succeeds. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <woods@robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>