HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

named-checkzone(1) named-checkzone(1)

NAME

named-checkzone - zone validity checking tool

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/named-checkzone

[-c class ][-dq] zone [ﬁlename]

DESCRIPTION

named-checkzone

is a tool for performing integrity checks on the zone contents. It uses the same

integrity checks as

named. It mainly checks for syntax errors and also the RR type.

Options

-c class

Specify the class of the zone.

-d Enable debugging.

-q Enable quiet mode for exit code only.

Operands

filename

The ﬁle that should be used for checking the zone contents.

If ﬁlename is not speciﬁed, it defaults to the ﬁle with the zone name. For this to work, the ﬁle name

for the zone in the zone directive of the named.conf ﬁle must be identical to the zone name.

zone The zone whose contents are to be checked.

RETURN VALUES

named-checkzone returns:

0 Success.

1 Errors were detected.

EXAMPLE

$ named-checkzone -d text.domain db.domain

AUTHOR

named-checkzone was developed by ISC (Internet Software Consortium).