[BlueOnyx:22910] Re: Checking DNS secondary zone files

[Colin Jack]

Thanks Christoph,

> > Found the zone files but can't cat them like I can on earlier versions to check
> the serial number etc.
> > Google says the latest versions of bind use raw files?
> >
> > I appreciate I am being a bit 'noob' here but I need to confirm that the
> secondary records have updated - they don't always.
> 
> Recent versions of bind (>=9.9) can use either raw or text format (can be
> configured[1]).
> There is a tool to manually convert between the two formats. See the below url
> for an explanation and how to convert:
> 
> https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00608

Yeah saw that on Google but bit of a pain if all I want to do is compare serial numbers of zone records to check they have updated. ☹

Regards

Colin