June 13, 2000 named-checkzone 8 BIND9 named-checkzone zone file validity checking tool named-checkzone -d -j -q -v -c class -k mode -n mode -o filename -t directory -w directory -D -W mode zonename filename named-checkzone checks the syntax and integrity of a zone file. It performs the same checks as named does when loading a zone. This makes named-checkzone useful for checking zone files before configuring them into a name server. -d Enable debugging. -q Quiet mode - exit code only. -v Print the version of the named-checkzone program and exit. -j When loading the zone file read the journal if it exists. -c class Specify the class of the zone. If not specified "IN" is assumed. -k mode Perform "check-name" checks with the specified failure mode. Possible modes are "fail", "warn" (default) and "ignore". -n mode Specify whether NS records should be checked to see if they are addresses. Possible modes are "fail", "warn" (default) and "ignore". -o filename Write zone output to directory. -t directory chroot to directory so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a similarly chrooted named. -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. -D Dump zone file in canonical format. -W mode Specify whether to check for non-terminal wildcards. Non-terminal wildcards are almost always the result of a failure to understand the wildcard matching algorithm (RFC 1034). Possible modes are "warn" (default) and "ignore". zonename The domain name of the zone being checked. filename The name of the zone file. named-checkzone returns an exit status of 1 if errors were detected and 0 otherwise. named 8 , RFC 1035, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual. Internet Systems Consortium