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$Id: named-checkzone.8,v 1.16 2004/03/05 05:48:11 marka Exp $
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.
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.
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