named-checkzone -D

[Joshua Smith]

Makes perfect sense.

Thanks,
Josh

On Jan 10, 2008 1:03 PM, Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:
> That means that it prints out the entire zone, with shortcuts removed.
>
> For example, here is a zone file on my server, plus the output of
> 'named-checkzone -D' performed against that file:
>
> $ cat 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa-hosts
> $TTL    86400
> @       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
>                                        1997022700 ; Serial
>                                        28800      ; Refresh
>                                        14400      ; Retry
>                                        3600000    ; Expire
>                                        86400 )    ; Minimum
>                IN      NS      localhost.
>
> 1       IN      PTR     localhost.
> $ named-checkzone -D 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa-hosts
> zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.                         86400 IN SOA      localhost. root.localhost.
> 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.                         86400 IN NS       localhost.
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.                       86400 IN PTR      localhost.
> OK
>
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> On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Joshua Smith wrote:
>
> > According to the man page the -D option causes named-checkzone to dump
> > the zone file in canonical format.  I've goggled around a bit, but I
> > can't seem to figure out what this means.  Could one of you please
> > point me to somewhere that explains this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
> >
> >
>
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