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 'named'. This variable is overridden by
       the -o option.

       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)