HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 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 This option is used to specify the class of the zone.

-d This option is used to enable debugging.

-q This option is used to enable quiet mode for exit code only.

Operands

zone This option speciﬁes the zone whose contents is to be checked.

filename This option speciﬁes 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

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

the zone name.

RETURN VALUE

named-checkzone returns:

0 Success.

1 Errors are detected.

EXAMPLES

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

AUTHOR

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