Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > named-checkconf is only half the story. The other half is > named-checkzone :P IMO, the most useful to say about named-checkzone is that it's redundant to 'named-checkconf -z'. So there, I've covered it. ;->

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > named-checkconf is only half the story. The other half is > named-checkzone :P Oh, and also: If your zonefiles have $INCLUDE directives and BIND9 is running in a chroot, then named-checkzone will break as it will not understand the referenced file's

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-07 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 10:25:21PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting terryc (ter...@woa.com.au): > > > 1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration > > these days. > > Online book _DNS for Rocket Scientists_, > http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/. > > > 2. what programs do

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting terryc (ter...@woa.com.au): > 1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration > these days. Online book _DNS for Rocket Scientists_, http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/. > 2. what programs do you recommend for checking the configuration files. named-checkconf . It

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:56:21PM +1100, terryc wrote: > 1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration > these days. The bind9 administrator reference manual, which you can find at isc.org, or as part of the bind9-doc package. > > 2. what programs do you recommend for

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-06 Thread Simon Hobson
terryc wrote: > The problem I'm hitting is the format of woa.com.au/192.168.0.0 zone > files and despite carefully deriving ones from examples in the Debian > wiki I'm getting conflicting error listing. Frustrating. What sort of problems are you getting ? Some of us here have a bit of

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-06 Thread wirelessduck
> On 6 Nov 2018, at 21:56, terryc wrote: > > 1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration > these days. > > 2. what programs do you recommend for checking the configuration files. > > > LS; My antique hardware that was the nameserver and web for the LAN > suffered a

[DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

2018-11-06 Thread terryc
1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration these days. 2. what programs do you recommend for checking the configuration files. LS; My antique hardware that was the nameserver and web for the LAN suffered a motherboard failure and I need to configure a replacement