Deleting zone files

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Dec 12 18:00:40 UTC 2002


You should also remove any delegations for the zone.


- Kevin

sudhakar wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> The zones have been removed physically. I mean that there are no computers
> and the domains do not exist as of today. There are still entries in the
> named.conf files. In that case will my removal of the entries from
> named.conf and the removal of the    zone files be sufficient. I'd
> appreciate your suggestions and comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sudhakar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:57 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Deleting zone files
>
> sudhakar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'd appreciate if you can gurus can share your on experiences and
> > suggestions on deleting non-existent zones in my internal DNS server.I'm
> > running BIND 8.2 on Red Hat Linux 6.2.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the issue. If the zone is truly "non-existent",
> i.e. not delegated, no definition for it in named.conf, then a simple
> "rm" of the zonefile should suffice...
>
> - Kevin



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