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)