NAME

       convertar - Converts trust anchor repositories from one format to another

DESCRIPTION

       convertar operates on input and output files of different Trust Anchor Repository (TAR)
       formats.  convertar decides what type of file format is being referred to by a
       "type:filename" specification.  Options can be passed to the convertar module by using a
       '/' delimited specifier in the type identifier.  Such as
       "type/option=value/other=othervalue:filename".  See below for a list of different input
       and output formats that convertar understands by default and what options they take.

       See the Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::TrustAnchor module and its documentation for writing new
       plugins to allow convertar to understand other TAR formats.

EXAMPLES

       This command will read in an itar.xml file (available from https://itar.iana.org/) and
       convert it to a file that can be read in by BIND's named application:

         # convertar -i itar:itar.xml -o bind:bind.conf

       Read in multiple files, merge them together and write them out to two different output
       file formats (the libval format is printed to stdout):

         # convertar -i itar:itar.xml,csv:local.csv -o bind:bind.conf,libval:-

FILE SPECIFICATION CONVENTIONS

       Types and files (e.g. for the -i and -o switches) are specificied using the following
       format:

         type:/path/to/file

       The type portion of the specification dictates what internal module will attempt to read
       in the file.  The file portion of the specification may or may not be required (but the
       ':' always is) and may or may not point to a real file, depending on the module in charge
       of the content.  Some modules may, for exmaple, load content from the network.  For types
       that can read and write to a file, a '-' may be specified as a file to print to or read
       from standard output.

       File formats MAY be infered from a trailing suffix, if the trailing suffix.  EG, if a
       referenced file is foo.csv then internally convertar will translate this to "csv:foo.csv".

FILE FORMATS

       The following file formats are known by default to convertar:

       bind
           A BIND name server (named) compatible trust anchor configuration file.  This can be
           included within a master named.conf file using the "include" directive.

           The bind option can also take a /write_expectations=1 flag when writing to write an
           options {} section that will turn on dnssec and require validation for zones from all
           the imported data.

           E.G. bind/write_expectations=1:named.conf

       secspider
           This is merely an alias that fetches the specspider (http://secspider.cs.ucla.edu/)
           bind configuration file and then parse it using the bind file format.

           WARNING: The PGP signature on the downloaded file is NOT checked.

       csv A comma-separated list format.

       dump
           A Perl hash dump format.  This should be used mostly for debugging of newly developed
           modules as it shows the internal hash structure that is passed between modules.

       itar
           IANA's itar format, which is an XML-based format of trust anchor keys.  IANA's file is
           available from https://itar.iana.org/.

           Specifying only 'itar:' line only (or itar:URL), convertar will attempt to retrieve
           the current remote ITAR respository file directly.

           WARNING: The PGP signature on the downloaded file is NOT checked.

           NOTE: support for downloading the ITAR repository over the network requires the
           LWP::UserAgent module to be installed.

       libval
           The libval format is the configuration file format that DNSSEC-Tool's libval library
           uses.

           The libval option can also take a /write_expectations=1 flag when writing to specify
           that the default (:) zone-security-expectation's should be populated to require
           validation of all the zones with imported data.  All other zones will have a policy
           set to 'ignore.

           E.G. libval/write_expectations=1:dnsval.conf

       mf  The master file (mf) format is also available from the itar web site.

       dns The dns format performs live queries of records attached to a domain name to request
           either DS or DNSKEY records.  By default, DNSKEY records will be queried.  The
           specific type to be queried can be specified by preceeding the zone name with a "ds/"
           or "dnskey/" prefix.  Example valid 'dns:' type specifications:

             dns:dnssec-tools.org
             dns:ds/dnssec-tools.org
             dns:dnskey/dnssec-tools.org

           Also, if you want to read dnskeys from the network but convert them to ds records, you
           can use the /tods flag:

             dns/tods=1:dnssec-tools.org

           The DNS type can not output records and is only useful for reading in information.

           WARNING: The keys and data being retrieved are not internally validated and thus
           should not be trusted unless a secured resolver is being used.

OPTIONS

       -i STRING
       --input-file=STRING
           Input file(s) to process.

           convertar will read in the specified file(s).  Multiple files can be separated by
           commas.

       -o STRING
       --output-file=STRING
           Output file(s) to write.

           convertar will write out these specified file(s) in the requested output formats.
           Multiple files can be separated by commas.

       -h
       --help
       --help-full
           Displays command line help information.

       --gui
       --no-gui
           Controls the use of the optional GUI.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2009-2013 SPARTA, Inc.  All rights reserved.  See the COPYING file included with
       the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

AUTHOR

       Wes Hardaker < hardaker AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net >

SEE ALSO

       Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::TrustAnchor(3)