POLYGRAPH-DNS-CFG(1)

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💅 POLYGRAPH-DNS-CFG(1) — user commands, but make it cute

okay so real talk, bestie: this is the man page for polygraph-dns-cfg from the User Commands girlies. it makes DNS configs. yes, that DNS. strap in 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

polygraph-dns-cfg — the DNS server configuration tool, no cap. it literally builds your DNS server config for you so you don't have to hand-write zone files like some kind of Victorian orphan 😭

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dns-cfg [--option ...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it --options, it gives you config. iconique 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea, and you're gonna be obsessed ☕

you hand dns-cfg a zone name, some DNS names, and some IP addresses, and it goes off and builds configuration suitable for use with BIND and, perhaps, other DNS servers. slay. it's giving personal assistant who actually does her job.

the output comes in three parts, and not me having to explain all three because they go to different places 🙈

  • part one — this is the text you cut-and-paste into BIND's named.conf file. it's the main character. it gets sent to the standard output. periodt.
  • the outer two parts — these are your direct and reverse zone files. and bestie, listen, those may be quite large, so they get dumped on disk into the appropriately named files. not into your terminal. into files. on disk. keep up 💖

and here's the lil cherry on top: dns-cfg can use PGL configuration as the source of information. so if you already have a PGL config lying around, she'll just use that. iykyk ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay here's the full menu, and yes we're listing every single one because we don't skip 🫶

  • --help — gives you the list of options. the classic "help me help you" move 💀
  • --version — package version info. so you know exactly which era of this software you're living in 🕰️
  • --config <filename> — PGL configuration. point her at the file, she handles the rest 🍓
  • --cfg_dirs <dirs> — directories for PGL #includes. yes, directories, plural. she's greedy like that 😌
  • --zone <str> — zone name. the name of the zone. who could have guessed 🌈
  • --addresses <str> — IP addresses. the numbers. the addresses. you get it 🔥
  • --names <str> — domain names. the human-readable ones. the cute ones. the ones people actually type 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this absolute legend is polygraph-dns-cfg — Web Polyg... for short, apparently, because even man pages get truncated — and it's dated February 2010, so she's vintage, she's classic, she's been serving DNS configs since before some of us could read. respect the elders 💅👑

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