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named-checkzone

Section: System Administration Commands (1M)
Updated: 20 Mar 2007
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NAME

named-checkzone - zone file validity checking tool

SYNOPSIS

named-checkzone [-djqv] [-c class] [-k mode] [-n mode]
    [-o filename] [-t directory] [-w directory] [-D]
    zonename filename

DESCRIPTION

The named-checkzone utility checks the syntax and integrity of a zone file. It performs the same checks as named(1M) does when loading a zone. The named-checkzone utility is useful for checking zone files before configuring them into a name server.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-c class

: Specify the class of the zone. If not specified, "IN" is assumed.

-d

: Enable debugging.

-D

: Dump zone file in canonical format.

-k mode

: Perform "check-name" checks with the specified failure mode. Possible modes are fail, warn (the default) and ignore.

-j

: Read the journal, if it exists, when loading the zone file.

-n mode

: Specify whether NS records should be checked to see if they are addresses. Possible modes are fail, warn (the default) and ignore.

-o filename

: Write zone output to filename.

-q

: Run in quiet mode, reporting only the exit status.

-t directory

: chroot to directory so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a similarly chrooted named.

-v

: Print the version of the named-checkzone program and exit.

-w directory

: chdir to directory so that relative filenames in master file $INCLUDE directives work. This is similar to the directory clause in named.conf.

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

filename

: The name of the zone file.

zonename

: The domain name of the zone being checked.

EXIT STATUS

: No errors were detected.

: An error was detected.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE

Availability SUNWbind

Interface Stability

NOTES

Source for BIND9 is available in the SUNWbind9S package.

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