NAME
named-checkzone — zone validity checking tool
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/named-checkzone
[-Ddjqv]
[-c
class]
[-k
mode]
[-n
mode]
[-o
outfile]
[-t
directory]
[-w
directory]
zonename
[filename]
DESCRIPTION
named-checkzone
is a tool for performing integrity checks on the zone contents.
It uses the same integrity checks as the
named
daemon when loading a zone.
This makes
named-checkzone
useful for checking zone files before configuring them into a name server.
Zones and zone files are described in
named.conf(4).
Options
- -c class
Specify the class of the zone.
- -D
Dump the zone file in canonical format.
- -d
Enable debugging.
- -j
Read the journal (if it exists) when loading the zone file.
- -k mode
Perform
check-names
checks with the specified failure mode.
Possible modes are
fail,
warn
(default),
and
ignore.
The
check-names
option is described in
named.conf(4).
- -n mode
Specify whether NS records should be checked to see if they are addresses.
Possible modes are
fail,
warn
(default),
and
ignore.
- -o outfile
Write zone output to
outfile .
- -q
Enable quiet mode for exit code only.
- -v
Print the version of
named-checkzone
and exit.
- -w directory
Change to
directory
(see
chdir(2))
so that relative file names in master file
$INCLUDE
directives work
This is similar to the
directory
clause in
named.conf.
Operands
- filename
The file to use for checking the zone contents.
The default is the file with the zone name.
For the default to work, the file name for the zone in the
zone
statement of the
named.conf
file must be identical to the zone name.
- zonename
The zone whose contents are to be checked.
RETURN VALUE
named-checkzone
sets the exit status to:
- 0
Success.
- 1
Errors were detected.
EXAMPLES
To perform integrity checks on zone
text.domain
in the zone file
db.domain,
and display debug information:
$ named-checkzone -d text.domain db.domain
AUTHOR
named-checkzone
was developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
SEE ALSO
named(1M),
chdir(2),
named.conf(4).
Requests for Comments (RFC):
1035,
available online at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/.
HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide,
available online at
http://docs.hp.com.
BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual,
available from the Internet Systems Consortium at
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93.
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