Re: BIND problems!

one of the many good things about BIND9 is its "named-checkzone" command,
which can tell you if a zone is loadworthy, and its "named-checkconf" command,
which can tell you if an entire configuration (including all zones) is
loadworthy. both commands send their output to stderr rather than syslog.

if you are still running BIND8 you should give BIND9 a try. 9.3.0 (beta2
plus its patch1, sorry) or 9.2.4rc1 should be nearly drop-in replacements
for BIND8. and we're accepting bug reports for any problems encountered
while trying to use BIND9 as a dropin for BIND8, so, don't be shy.

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tom McFarlane wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using bind 8.4.1 (and it has happened on a previous version that
> > came precompieled with freebsd 4.9) where it sometimes cannot resolve
> > names on a certain server, it only happens with one specific server
> > (also running bind 8.4.1). It doesn't have any errors or warnings in
> > logs, when using nslookup it just gives the output of Non-existant
> > host/domain. As far as its aware the data its receiving is valid and
> > non-existant.
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Paul Vixie