DNS tools for debugging named.conf

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:59 AM -0400 7/2/01, Fabiola Caceres wrote:

>  I have been searching the mailing lists for a tool that look for syntax
>  errors in the named.conf file. I'm running bind 8.2.3
>  So far I have only found tools that parse the zone files.
>  If someone knows about a good tool(s) to parse the named.conf for syntax
>  errors please let mee know where I can get it from.

	The best tools come with the BIND 9 distributions.  Look for 
named-checkconf and named-checkzone (which will respectively check an 
/etc/named.conf file or a DNS zone file).  These programs use the 
very same routines to validate your files that BIND 9 uses when 
loading the files, so if they give you a clean bill of health, then 
BIND 9 should have no problem loading them.


	All other DNS tools I know of unfortunately require that the 
nameserver in question already be up and operational, and properly 
located within the delegation structure of the DNS.

	If you have found some that will work on standard configuration 
and zone files without requiring that they be currently loaded and 
running somewhere, I'd love to hear about them.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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