named-checkzone.1 (2010 09)

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named-checkzone(1) named-checkzone(1)
(BIND 9.3)
NAME
named-checkzone - zone validity checking tool
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/named-checkzone
[-Ddjqv][-c class ][-k mode][-n
mode][-o outfile ]
[
-t directory ][-w
directory ] zonename [filename ]
DESCRIPTION
named-checkzone
is a tool for performing integrity checks on the zone contents. It uses the same
integrity checks as the
named daemon when loading a zone. This makes
named-checkzone
useful for
checking zone files before configuring them into a name server. Zones and zone files are described in
named.conf (4).
Options
-c class Specify the class of the zone.
-D Dump the zone file in canonical format.
-d Enable debugging.
-j Read the journal (if it exists) when loading the zone file.
-k mode Perform check-names checks with the specified failure mode. Possible modes are
fail,
warn (default), and ignore. The check-names option is described in named.conf (4).
-n mode Specify whether NS records should be checked to see if they are addresses. Possible modes are
fail, warn (default), and ignore.
-o outfile
Write zone output to outfile .
-q Enable quiet mode for exit code only.
-v Print the version of named-checkzone
and exit.
-w directory
Change to directory (see chdir (2)) so that relative file names in master file
$INCLUDE direc-
tives work This is similar to the
directory clause in named.conf.
Operands
filename The file to use for checking the zone contents. The default is the file with the zone name. For
the default to work, the file name for the zone in the
zone statement of the
named.conf file
must be identical to the zone name.
zonename The zone whose contents are to be checked.
RETURN VALUE
named-checkzone sets the exit status to:
0 Success.
1 Errors were detected.
EXAMPLES
To perform integrity checks on zone
text.domain in the zone file db.domain, and display debug
information:
$ named-checkzone -d text.domain db.domain
AUTHOR
named-checkzone was developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
SEE ALSO
named(1M), chdir(2), named.conf(4).
Requests for Comments (RFC): 1035, available online at http://www.rfc-editor.org/.
HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator’s Guide, available online at
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
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