named-checkzone

Name

named-checkzone — zone file validity checking tool

Synopsis

named-checkzone [-d] [-j] [-q] [-v] [-c class] [-k mode] [-n mode] [-o filename] [-t directory] [-w directory] [-D] [-W mode] {zonename} {filename}

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-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 filename.
-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.

RETURN VALUES

named-checkzone returns an exit status of 1 if errors were detected and 0 otherwise.

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