how to test named configuration

I'm running to named servers on NetBSD3.1
This morning someone added a CNAME for
a machine but forgot to remove its A record.
As a result the named servers wouldn't answer
any query about our domain.

Is there a way to test a named configuration
and identify misconfigurations before (re)starting it?

Regards,
Thierry.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:07:58 +0200
Thierry Lacoste <lacostemiage.univ-paris12.fr>
wrote:

> I'm running to named servers on NetBSD3.1
> This morning someone added a CNAME for
> a machine but forgot to remove its A record.
> As a result the named servers wouldn't answer
> any query about our domain.
> 
> Is there a way to test a named configuration
> and identify misconfigurations before (re)starting it?
> 
> Regards,
> Thierry.
> 

named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8).

Have fun,
-Tobias

On Monday 11 June 2007 13:30, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:07:58 +0200
>
> Thierry Lacoste <lacostemiage.univ-paris12.fr>
wrote:
> > I'm running to named servers on NetBSD3.1
> > This morning someone added a CNAME for
> > a machine but forgot to remove its A record.
> > As a result the named servers wouldn't answer
> > any query about our domain.
> >
> > Is there a way to test a named configuration
> > and identify misconfigurations before (re)starting
it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thierry.
>
> named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8).
Thanks a lot.

One more question. Why are those utilities not referenced
in the 'SEE ALSO' of man 8 named and man 5 named.conf?

Regards,
Thierry.

> > named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8).
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> One more question. Why are those utilities not
referenced
> in the 'SEE ALSO' of man 8 named and man 5 named.conf?

Good idea. I just submitted a patch upstream to ISC for
their docbook 
source of some of their man pages for this.

  Jeremy C. Reed