rndc addzone type forward

[Tony Finch]

Emil Natan <e at foowatch.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to add zone of type "forward" with rndc addzone, but it fails with:
>
> rndc addzone zone.org '{type forward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.20.115; }; };'
> rndc: 'addzone' failed: not found

I think this happens if you are using a version before 9.11 (which has a
more verbose error) and you get the view name wrong. The view name can be
wrong if you have multiple views and you don't specify which one.

e.g. on a 9.10 server with views:

$ rndc addzone google '{ type forward; forward only; forwarders { 8.8.8.8; }; };'
rndc: 'addzone' failed: not found
$

And on a 9.11 server with views:

$ rndc addzone google '{ type forward; forward only; forwarders { 8.8.8.8; }; };'
rndc: 'addzone' failed: not found
no matching view found for '_default'
$

You can get a similar error if you specify an incorrect view:

$ rndc addzone google in error '{ type forward; forward only; forwarders { 8.8.8.8; }; };'
rndc: 'addzone' failed: not found
no matching view found for 'error'
$

Tony.
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