[105857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: updating & checking DNS zone files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bertain)
Sat Jul 5 20:45:38 2008
From: Paul Bertain <paul@bertain.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1KFHkN-000FYg-7p@s0.nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:45:26 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
For incrementing your zone's serial number, I usually include zsu to
whatever editor I am using. It doesn't check the zone though. You
can use the aforementioned named-checkzone, etc. for that.
Paul
On Jul 5, 2008, at 5:04 PM, jbratton@rackspace.com wrote:
> Quoting travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org:
>
>> Apart from using Bernstein's tinydns, anyone have any scripts
>> for looking for problems in zone files or for incrementing the
>> serial number reliably?
>
> Check out BIND's named-checkzone and named-compilezone, depending on
> exactly what you are looking for. There are a number of command
> line parameters for fine tuning what you care about, and you can use
> the return value to determine if the zone is valid or not.
>
> As for the serial number, that is some simple scripting depending on
> what value you use for the serial number.
>
> -- Jason
>
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