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1 perry 1 LDAP2DNS
2 !!!LDAP2DNS
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 ENVIRONMENT
8 FILES
9 SEE ALSO
10 AUTHOR
11 ----
12 !!NAME
13
14
15 ldap2dns - LDAP based DNS management system
16 !!SYNOPSIS
17
18
19 __ldap2dns[[d]__ [[''-D binddn''] [[''-b searchbase'']
20 [[''-o data|db''] [[''-h host''] [[''-p port''] [[''-w
21 password''] [[''-L[[filename]''] [[''-u numsecs'']
22 [[''-v[[v]''] [[''-V'']
23 !!DESCRIPTION
24
25
26 This manual page documents briefly the __ldap2dns__
27 commands. This manual page was written for the Debian
28 GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
29 have a manual page yet.
30
31
32 __ldap2dns__ is an efficient, administration friendly way
33 to maintain DNS information and distribute DNS records to
34 multiple primary DNS servers running __djbdns__ or
35 __BIND__
36 !!OPTIONS
37
38
39 A summary of commanline options is included
40 below.
41
42
43 __-D binddn__
44
45
46 Use the distinguished name binddn to bind to the LDAP
47 directory.
48
49
50 __-w bindpasswd__
51
52
53 Use bindpasswd as the password for simple
54 authentication.
55
56
57 __-b__
58
59
60 Use searchbase as the starting point for the search instead
61 of the default.
62
63
64 __-o data__
65
66
67 Generate a
68 tinydns-data__
69
70
71 __-o db__
72
73
74 For each zone generate a
75 named__
76
77
78 __-L[[filename]__
79
80
81 Print output in LDIF format for reimport.
82
83
84 __-h host__
85
86
87 Hostname of LDAP server, defaults to localhost.
88
89
90 __-p port__
91
92
93 Portnumber to connect to LDAP server, defaults to
94 389
95
96
97 __-u numsecs__
98
99
100 Update DNS data after numsecs. Defaults to 59 if started as
101 daemon.
102
103
104 Important notice: data.cdb is rewritten only after DNSserial
105 in DNSzone is increased.
106
107
108 __-e exec-cmd__
109
110
111 This command is executed after ldap2dns regenerated its data
112 files.
113
114
115 __-v__
116
117
118 Run in verbose mode.
119
120
121 __-vv__
122
123
124 Run in even more verbose mode.
125
126
127 __-V__
128
129
130 Print version and exit.
131 !!ENVIRONMENT
132
133
134 __LDAP2DNS_UPDATE__ The LDAP2DNS_UPDATE environment
135 variable sets the time interval in seconds to update DNS
136 data. This variable is overridden by -u option.
137
138
139 __LDAP2DNS_OUTPUT__ Specify the type of output. It may be
140 set to 'data' so that its output may be used by tinydns. It
141 may be set to 'db' so that its output may be used
142 by
143
144
145 __TINYDNSDIR__ The root-directory used by tinydns, ie.
146 the one in which to tinydns expects its
147 'data'-file.
148 !!FILES
149
150
151 /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
152 Options specified here fulfil the same purpose as for other
153 ldap-tools.
154 !!SEE ALSO
155
156
157 ldap.conf(5), ldapsearch(1), tinydns,
158 named.conf(5).
159
160
161 Please visit the project homepage for more detail:
162 [[''http://ldap2dns.tiscover.com/'']
163 !!AUTHOR
164
165
166 This manual page was written by Johann Botha
167
168
169 Jacob Rief
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