namespace verification

[Niall O'Reilly]

david at from525.com wrote:

> I was forced into writing some stuff like this as I inherited a severely
> neglected DNS environment.  Instead of having to write the logic capable of
> parsing a zone file I found it easier to parse host -l output.  This allows
> for not needing to take account of all the allowed shorthand within the
> zone files that bind understands.  

	Another option is to convert the zone to 'canonical' form
	either using named-compilezone or by using dig to transfer
	(axfr) the zone.

	/Niall