Deleting zone files

[Gregory Hicks]

> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:00:40 -0500
> From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Deleting zone files
> 
> 
> You should also remove any delegations for the zone.

By this you mean - I think - RRs of this sort...

<subdomain>       IN NS <NameServer.FQDN...>
<NameServer.FQDN> IN A  <some.ip.address.here>

??

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> 
> 
> - 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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