test zoned files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <aa70gj$646 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Armin Safarians <armin.safarians at safeway.com> wrote:
>Does any one know if there any facility or utility that can run against
>a zone file to test for errors before a zone gets loaded. Currently I am
>in a situation where the master is being used to do queries and any
>mistake in the zone file rejects the zone and dns breaks. I am looking
>for something outside of writing a script to check error before pushing
>to the server and reloading named.

BIND 9 includes named-checkzone and named-checkconf, which check the syntax
of zone and named.conf files.

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