bind2samba 1.0.3

Description:

bind2samba 1.0.3

bind2samba: A converter for BIND zone files to samba-tool invocations
About
This tool assits when converting an old zone file to a DNS zone run by a Samba
Directory Controller. It can read the zone file and turn its contents into
invocations of samba-tool dns add .... It understands A, AAAA, CNAME, and MX
records. In addtion, one can give subnets in CIDR notation; if A/AAAA records
match the subnets given, reverse PTR records are also created.
Invocations
Suppose you have the following zone file:
$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 3d

example.com. IN SOA ns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com.
(
2018022301 ; Serial
1h ; Refresh
15m ; Retry
2w ; Expire
1h) ; Negative TTL

example.com. IN NS galathea-bond0.example.com
example.com. IN MX 10 mx


;
; Local, trusted network:
;

charon IN A 172.16.5.1
charon IN AAAA 2001:170:1243:1::1

You can feed it directly to bind2samba:
% bind2samba example.com.db
I would run the following commands:
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com @ MX mx.example.com 10
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com charon A 172.16.5.1
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com charon AAAA 2001:170:1243:1::1

Supplying subnets will create PTR records, too:
% bind2samba \
--ipv4-subnet=172.16.0.0/12 \
--ipv6-subnet=2001:170:1243::/48 \
minimal-example.com.db
I would run the following commands:
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com @ MX mx.example.com 10
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com charon A 172.16.5.1
samba-tool dns add localhost 16.172.in-addr.arpa 1.5.16.172.in-addr.arpa PTR charon.example.com
samba-tool dns add localhost example.com charon AAAA 2001:170:1243:1::1
samba-tool dns add localhost 3.4.2.1.0.7.1.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.3.4.2.1.0.7.1.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa PTR charon.example.com

Multiple subnets can be given, the best matching will then be used.
The tool can also provide you with single commands without seeing a full SOA
record, because --zone example.com is also a command line option. Then, you
can simply feed records on stdin to it:
echo 'charon IN A 172.16.5.1' | ../src/bind2samba --zone=example.com

In general, running bind2samba --help gives the full list of arguments,
as any well-behaved tool should.
Reporting bugs, feature wishes, and contributing
The project's website is https://github.com/eveith/bind2samba, but
bug reports, feature wishes, or patches can also just e-mailed to
[email protected].