Converting between zone file formats

[Greg Choules]

Hi Håvard.
I currently have 9.18.8 installed; the version of named-compilezone is the
same. As a test I just converted a text format zone file to raw and then
that raw file back to text and it looks fine to me:
- named-compilezone -f text -F raw -o junk.raw junk db.junk
- named-compilezone -f raw -F text -o junk.raw.txt junk junk.raw

Is that what you're after? Or is it specifically whether 9.18's
interpretation of "raw" is different to 9.16's? (I don't know at the moment
and I don't have a raw file generated with 9.16 to test it).

Cheers, Greg

On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 10:11, Havard Eidnes via bind-users <
bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:

> > Named-checkzone and named-compilezone are the same executable.
> > Named-checkzone looks up remote records to more completely
> > detect configuration errors.  See the man page for details.
>
> Thanks for the hint, I apparently need to complicate my script
> even more to avoid the network lookups.
>
> You didn't answer, though, whether the 9.16 named-checkzone will
> be able to read & correctly interpret the binary zone files 9.18
> stores in the file system, or whether there is some other and
> more preferable way to accomplish what I want, either with 9.18
> itself or otherwise.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Håvard
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