How to automatically check local configuration and master zones?

[Mark Damrose]

"Marc Haber" <mh+usenet0220 at zugschlus.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
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> include "possible-faq-warning.conf";

Not an FAQ per se.  But it is a frequent answer to other questions.

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> I would like to check if my configuration is OK _before_ I start bind
> (still using 8.3.3, but will be migrating to bind 9 RSN) to make sure
> that no zones will be rejected and bind will stay running after
> reload.
>
> The ideal thing would be a program using the original bind parser,
> parsing configuration and master zones once, and returning an exit
> code saying whether the configuration is OK or not.
>
> This problem surely is very common in the community, and has been
> solved millions of times. Is there a publicly available solution, or
> do I have to settle for something non-perfect home-built?

named-checkconf and named-checkzone should have been included with the BIND
distribution.

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> Any hints will be appreciated.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
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