pre-reload zone check

[jonr at destar.net]

Quoting Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de>:

> Hello,
>
> since BIND is very strict and refuses to serve complete zones if
> something isn't correct in there, I would like to do a test on a
> zonefile before I'm reloading BIND, so the zone doesn't go offline in
> case of an error. How can I do this? Or is there a way to tell BIND to
> serve at least those entries of a zone that are fine, so only certain
> entries aren't available, but not the whole zone?
>
> Regards
> Marten
>
>
>

I think what you are looking for is 'rndc'.

Hope that helps,

Jon