> On 6 Nov 2018, at 21:56, terryc <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 motherboard failure and I need to configure a replacement
> nameserver on the mail server.
>
> The old bind configuration held strong, with minor fiddling from before
> version 8 and it has been easy to get as forwarding nameserver runnming.
>
> 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.
>
> Hence asking for tips so I can keep some hair. TIA.

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/

It’s based on fedora so the configuration files and locations might be slightly different.

named-checkconf and named-checkzone will check your configuration files and zone files respectively.

HTH

—Tom