named.conf lint (format debugging)

[Forrest Aldrich]

I may be expecting too much from an IDE, but something that could say 
"wait, you have your keyword in the wrong location" -- instead of the 
standard error that says "controls unrecognized" that named provides.   In 
my case, something happened such that I had my keyword in the wrong area 
(in options, when it should have been above).

Debugging info, basically.



At 02:52 PM 9/25/2003, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <bkvd63$d1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>Forrest Aldrich  <forrie at forrie.com> wrote:
> >Exactly.
> >
> >I did figure it out, after much toiling.
> >
> >Maybe there's an IDE out there (free) that some formatting rules for
> >named.conf can be placed into.  Would be very handy, especially where you
> >have a really large site and a simple mistake or misplacement of key words
> >can bring your server(s) down.
>
>Emacs already has modes for a number of languages that use
>brace-and-semicolon syntax similar to named.conf (e.g. C, Perl, and Java).
>You might be able to just use on of them, or it shouldn't be too difficult
>to use one of them as the basis for named.conf-mode.
>
>All you really need is something that indents properly according to the
>brace nesting depth and highlights the matching braces.
>
>--
>Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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