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Re: updating & checking DNS zone files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Jul 6 11:53:08 2008

Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:52:32 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080705210727.GN12413@subspacefield.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:07:28PM -0500, travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org wrote:
> Apart from using Bernstein's tinydns, anyone have any scripts
> for looking for problems in zone files or for incrementing the
> serial number reliably?

Well, all my networks are tiny, and I've only recently started having
to stir DNS zones again, but named-checkconf seems to give good hints.

There are also some public-facing things at domtools.com, and of course
dnsreport.com... but I see DNSreport went for-pay.

Cheers,
-- jra
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