Zone File Checker ---> CNAME and other data

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Apr 14 08:11:31 UTC 2005


At 3:25 PM +1000 2005-04-14, Paul Wulff wrote:

>  Therefore, my question is ... is there a zone file checker that can check
>  for the kind of error that the "CNAME and other data" error produces? I have
>  seen reference to zone-file-check on Debian BIND but nothing that works on a
>  Linux / BIND 9.x platform.

	BIND9 ships with a program called named-checkzone (and also 
named-checkconf), but it is possible that other vendors may not 
choose to install these programs.  If you download and install the 
latest version of BIND9, you should get a copy of these programs and 
be able to use them to your benefit.

	Note that these two programs use exactly the same library 
routines used by BIND to load the configuration file and the zone 
files, so if named-checkconf and named-checkzone say your file(s) 
is/are clean, then odds are very high that they would load 
successfully.  There are a few run-time error conditions that 
named-checkconf and named-checkzone cannot detect, but if they say 
you're clean, then odds are very high that they would load 
successfully.

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