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NAME

       ldap2dns - LDAP based DNS management system

SYNOPSIS

       ldap2dns[d]  [-D  binddn]  [-b  searchbase]  [-o data|db] [-h host] [-p
       port] [-w password] [-L[filename]] [-u numsecs] [-v[v]] [-V]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ldap2dns commands.  This  manual
       page  was  written  for  the  Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page yet.

       ldap2dns is an efficient, administration friendly way to  maintain  DNS
       information  and distribute DNS records to multiple primary DNS servers
       running djbdns or BIND

OPTIONS

       A summary of commanline options is included below.

       -D binddn
              Use the distinguished name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory.

       -w bindpasswd
              Use bindpasswd as the password for simple authentication.

       -b     Use  searchbase  as the starting point for the search instead of
              the default.

       -o data
              Generate a "data" file to be processed by tinydns-data

       -o db  For each zone generate a "<zonename>.db"  file  to  be  used  by
              named

       -L[filename]
              Print output in LDIF format for reimport.

       -h host
              Hostname of LDAP server, defaults to localhost.

       -p port
              Portnumber to connect to LDAP server, defaults to 389

       -u numsecs
              Update  DNS  data  after  numsecs.  Defaults to 59 if started as
              daemon.

              Important notice: data.cdb is rewritten only after DNSserial  in
              DNSzone is increased.

        -e exec-cmd
              This  command  is  executed  after ldap2dns regenerated its data
              files.

        -v    Run in verbose mode.

        -vv   Run in even more verbose mode.

        -V    Print version and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       LDAP2DNS_UPDATE The LDAP2DNS_UPDATE environment variable sets the  time
       interval  in seconds to update DNS data. This variable is overridden by
       -u option.

       LDAP2DNS_OUTPUT Specify the type of output. It may be set to ’data’  so
       that  its  output may be used by tinydns. It may be set to ’db’ so that
       its output may be used by

       TINYDNSDIR The root-directory used by tinydns, ie. the one in which  to
       tinydns expects its ’data’-file.

FILES

       /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
       Options specified here fulfil the same purpose as for other ldap-tools.

SEE ALSO

       ldap.conf(5), ldapsearch(1), tinydns, named.conf(5).

       Please    visit    the    project    homepage    for    more    detail:
       [http://ldap2dns.tiscover.com/]

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Johann Botha <joe@blio.net>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system and is distributed under the GPL version  2  or
       later.

       Jacob  Rief  <jacob.rief@tiscover.com>  is  the original author of this
       program.

                                 May 22, 2001                      LDAP2DNS(1)