Named-checkzone and named-compilezone are the same executable. Named-checkzone looks up remote records to more completely detect configuration errors. See the man page for details.
-- Mark Andrews > On 30 Jan 2023, at 19:33, Havard Eidnes via bind-users > <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > by default, the files written by BIND when acting as a slave is > not in "text" format, but is some binary file format, I beleive > what is referred to as "raw" format. > > Once in a while it's desireable to be able to see the contents of > the slave zone file as plain text. To that end I have previously > used named-compilezone to do this with > > named-compilezone \ > -q -j -f raw -F text -o - \ > $z \ > $directory/$z > > However... This does not appear to work anymore. > > Earlier I ran BIND 9.16 on this host, but it has been upgraded to > 9.18 (built and installed from local source). It seems that a > while back (probably in the 9.16 era), named-compilezone was > changed to a symlink to named-checkzone, and it also looks like > BIND 9.18 no longer installs named-checkzone, so what I have as > named-checkzone appears to come from BIND 9.16. > > Trying to use the procedure as above results in a named-checkzone > which hangs in select(), which is a bit strange when it's only > supposed to act on local files?!? > > What should I now use instead of the above to convert the binary > zone file to back to the textual master zone file format? Please > don't say "that's not possible"... > > (This might be important to be able to do if an upstream suffers > a catastrophe of some sort, as a step along the path to convert > this name server to be a master for the zone in question. Being > a master implies being able to modify the zone, and doing that > with a binary file is ... slightly inconvenient.) > > Regards, > > - Håvard > -- > Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from > this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
