zonec(8)							    nsd 3.2.12								  zonec(8)

NAME

       zonec - NSD zone compiler version 3.2.12.

SYNOPSIS

       zonec [-v] [-h] [-C] [-L] [-F] [-c configfile] [-d directory] [-o origin] [-z zonefile] [-f database]

DESCRIPTION

       Zonec  is  the  nsd(8)  database  compiler for creating name space databases from a set of input master zone files specified in nsd.conf(5)
       file.

       It is normally invoked via nsdc(8) rebuild command.  Zonec will then parse every zone in nsd.conf(5) file and add  it  to  the  name  space
       database, /var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db by default, that is used by nsd(8) to answer incoming queries.

OPTIONS

       -c configfile
	      Read specified configfile instead of the default /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf.

       -C     No config file is read (use with -f, -o and -z).

       -d directory
	      Change the working directory to directory before doing any work. Overrides zonesdir: option in config file.

       -f database
	      Create the specified database instead of the file specified as database: in the config file.

       -o origin
	      Use  this  as  the  first origin. Zone information is read from zonefile specified with -z. When reading zones from config file this
	      option is ignored.

       -z zonefile
	      Reads all zone information from zonefile.  If zonefile equals `-`, then all zone information is read from stdin,	making	constructs
	      like:

	      # cat zones* | ./zonec -C -f nsd.db -o example.net -z -

	      possible. When reading zones from config file this option is ignored.

       -v     Increase	the  verbosity	of zonec. This flag can be specified multiple times to increase the level of verbosity. The first level of
	      verbosity will print per zone summary information. The second level of will print progress information  for  each  10,000  RRs  pro-
	      cessed.

       -F     Set debug facilities. (If compiled with --enable-checking.)

       -L     Set debug level. (If compiled with --enable-checking.)

FILES

       /var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db
	      default NSD database

       /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf
	      default NSD configuration file

DIAGNOSTICS

       Zonec will log all the problems via the standard error output and progress via stdout if the v option is specified.

SEE ALSO

       nsd(8), nsdc(8), nsd.conf(5), nsd-checkconf(8), nsd-notify(8), nsd-patch(8), nsd-xfer(8)

AUTHORS

       NSD was written by NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC joint team. Please see CREDITS file in the distribution for further details.

BUGS

       Zonec  has  rather  weak error diagnostics that will change in further versions.  Zonec expects the input files to be free of syntax errors
       and very little fool proof checks are done.

NLnet Labs							   jul 19, 2012 							  zonec(8)