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/usr/bin/named-compilezone

The ISC DNS tools

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named-compilezone: invalid argument --
usage: named-compilezone [-djqvD] [-c class] [-f inputformat] [-F outputformat] [-J filename] [-s (full|relative)] [-t directory] [-w directory] [-k (ignore|warn|fail)] [-m (ignore|warn|fail)] [-n (ignore|warn|fail)] [-r (ignore|warn|fail)] [-i (full|full-sibling|local|local-sibling|none)] [-M (ignore|warn|fail)] [-S (ignore|warn|fail)] [-W (ignore|warn)] -o filename zonename [ (filename|-) ]
Options (26)
OptionDescriptionSource
-dThis option enables debugging.man
-hThis option prints the usage summary and exits.man
-qThis option sets quiet mode, which only sets an exit code to indicate successful or failed completion.man
-vThis option prints the version of the named-checkzone <#std-iscman-named-checkzone> program and exits.man
-jWhen loading a zone file, this option tells named <#std-iscman-named> to read the journal if it exists.man
-J filenameWhen loading the zone file, this option tells named <#std-iscman-named> to read the journal from the given file, if it exists.man
-c classThis option specifies the class of the zone.man
-C modeThis option controls check mode on zone files when loading.man
-i modeThis option performs post-load zone integrity checks.man
-f formatThis option specifies the format of the zone file.man
-F formatThis option specifies the format of the output file specified.man
-k modeThis option performs check-names checks with the specified failure mode.man
-l ttlThis option sets a maximum permissible TTL for the input file.man
-L serialWhen compiling a zone to raw format, this option sets the "source serial" value in the header to the specified serial number.man
-m modeThis option specifies whether MX records should be checked to see if they are addresses.man
-M modeThis option checks whether a MX record refers to a CNAME.man
-n modeThis option specifies whether NS records should be checked to see if they are addresses.man
-o filenameThis option writes the zone output to filename.man
-r modeThis option checks for records that are treated as different by DNSSEC but are semantically equal in plain DNS.man
-s styleThis option specifies the style of the dumped zone file.man
-S modeThis option checks whether an SRV record refers to a CNAME.man
-t directoryThis option tells named <#std-iscman-named> to chroot to directory, so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a similarly chrooted named <#std-iscman-named>.man
-T modeThis option checks whether Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records exist and issues a warning if an SPF-formatted TXT record is not also present.man
-w directoryThis option instructs named <#std-iscman-named> to chdir to directory, so that relative filenames in master file $INCLUDE directives work.man
-DThis option dumps the zone file in canonical format.man
-W modeThis option specifies whether to check for non-terminal wildcards.man
Exit status (1) from the manual page
1errors were detected and 0 otherwise

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