fetchzone(1)

fetchzone1

Get dns zone from server

Overview

fetchzone transfers a user-specified dns zone from a zone server and displays it in csv2 format on the standard output.

Usage

fetchzone zone_name zone_server_IP [query_class]

Options

zone_name

Name of the dns zone to be transferred.

zone_server_IP

IP address of dns server

query_class

Optional argument which can change the query class from 1 (the default) to 255. This may be needed for some versions of Bind.

Examples

To obtain the zone example.com from the server 192.168.9.8:

fetchzone example.com 192.168.9.8 

To obtain the zone example.org from the server 10.9.8.78 using a query class of 255:

fetchzone example.com 10.9.8.78 255

Releases

7 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0–6.0
  2. 7–11

Bugs

Fetchzone will not correctly output host names with utf-8 characters in them.

Author

Sam Trenholme

From maradns 2.0.13-1.4+deb11u1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.