Named: lot of invalid zones

[Dijkstra]

Hi all,

As far I know, named refuses to start when a DNS zone for a domain is invalid or missing some data.
In our named config, we have rough-way 30.000-40.000 domains and I expect that that there will be a lot of bad zones, caused by some DirectAdmin who made mistakes in their DNS.

I come at a point that I need to restart named at our DNS-servers, but going to manualy fix al the failling domains going to be a hell of a job. Does DirectAdmin or named have a function to ignore the failed domains, to get named started again?

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

For CentOS-like systems: Set DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/named and try to restart the service again.

 

[Dijkstra]

Thanks @zEitEr !

 

[Zhenyapan]

but you still must grep logs for failed zones and fix them
because this setting makes named to skip/ignore failed zone.