pre-reload zone check

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eabmpc$ai0$1 at sf1.isc.org>, jonr at destar.net wrote:

> 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'.

I think not.  That's just the command used to tell BIND to reload.  It 
has nothing to do with verifying the zone PRIOR to reloading.  As I said 
in my response, this is "named-checkzone".

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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