On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. > > In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation > had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. > > What was interesting was that - at startup - bind absolutely refused > to load the zone file at all. I would have expected it to complain > about the bad record and ignore it, but load the rest of the > good records. > > Can someone please explain the rationale or logic for this? Not complaining, > just trying to understand for future reference. > > TIA, > Tim
DNS is complicated. The scope of an error in a zonefile is hard to determine. To avoid this, your automation should use named-checkzone before releasing a zone file. This will perform all the checks that named will when it is loaded. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -------------------------- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed.
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