From: Robert Minsk <rminsk@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: [OSX/LINUX SYSADMIN] A script that converts /etc/hosts into a DNS configuration
   Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:14:49 -0400
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On Saturday 17 June 2006 15:49, Greg Ercolano wrote:
> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Greg Ercolano wrote:
> > I wrote a little perl script that automatically
> > [configures a DNS server from info in /etc/hosts file]
> >
> >     http://seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/hosts2dns/
> >
> > The script is tested to work under OSX 10.3.9 and 10.4.x, and Fedora
> > Core 3.
>
>  Added some features + fixes to this script; bumped the version
>  to 0.93. See the CHANGELOG for info:
>  http://seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/hosts2dns/CHANGES.txt
>
>  I've been using this script at a few facilities now to get
>  their DNS set up going quickly.
>
>  I really like this tool.. why I didn't make it 10 years ago I dunno.

Have you tried h2n (ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/h2n/h2n.tar.gz).  If is from the 
guy who wrote the O'Reilly book.  I was fixing a few special cases with him 
and then he got very sick.  Have not heard from him in a few months.  

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