pre-reload zone check

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eabf9m$2fpf$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> since BIND is very strict and refuses to serve complete zones if 
> something isn't correct in there, I would like to do a test on a 
> zonefile before I'm reloading BIND, so the zone doesn't go offline in 
> case of an error. How can I do this? Or is there a way to tell BIND to 

named-checkzone

> serve at least those entries of a zone that are fine, so only certain 
> entries aren't available, but not the whole zone?

That's usually what it does.  It also makes itself non-authoritative, so 
slave servers won't transfer the busted zone, they'll continue to serve 
the old version.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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