named-checkzone -D

[Chris Buxton]

That means that it prints out the entire zone, with shortcuts removed.

For example, here is a zone file on my server, plus the output of  
'named-checkzone -D' performed against that file:

$ cat 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa-hosts
$TTL	86400
@       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
                                       1997022700 ; Serial
                                       28800      ; Refresh
                                       14400      ; Retry
                                       3600000    ; Expire
                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
               IN      NS      localhost.

1       IN      PTR     localhost.
$ named-checkzone -D 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa-hosts
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.			      86400 IN SOA	localhost. root.localhost.  
1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.			      86400 IN NS	localhost.
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.			      86400 IN PTR	localhost.
OK


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On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Joshua Smith wrote:

> According to the man page the -D option causes named-checkzone to dump
> the zone file in canonical format.  I've goggled around a bit, but I
> can't seem to figure out what this means.  Could one of you please
> point me to somewhere that explains this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>