tinydns-edit (1) Linux Manual Page
tinydns-edit
Synopsis
tinydns-edit [OPTIONS] DATA DATA.TMP add TYPE NAME ADDRESSDescription
tinydns-edit write the DNS records to the `data’ file, which in turn is used by tinydns-data to generate the binary .cdb file used by tinydns or axfrdns server. The command line parameters required by tinydns-edit are- DATA
- is a path of the `data’ file to be written.
- DATA.TMP
- is a path of the temporary file to be used by tinydns-edit for creating the DATA file.
- add
- is a mandatory command.
- TYPE
- is the DNS record type, and could be any of the following
ns: name server record, specifies that the NAME is published by a DNS server at ADDRESS.
childns: specifies that requests for the domain NAME should be referred to a child DNS server at ADDRESS.
mx: this record says, mail to names in the domain NAME should be sent to an SMTP server at ADDRESS.
host: this record says that the domain NAME maps to an address ADDRESS and vice versa.
alias: this record says that the domain NAME maps to the address ADDRESS but the reverse is not true.
- NAME
- is the domain name to be appended to the DATA file.
- ADDRESS
- is the respective address for the domain NAME.
Options
- -h –help
-
print this help.
- -v –version
print version information. - -v –version