#4172 Bind 9.9 slave records displayed in raw format

[Bill Christensen]

Recent changes (BIND 9.9.0b2) have it storing slave records in RAW format. see: http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201111/bind-990b2-feature-update (near the very end of the page)

Previous versions stored slave records in more readable text format.

Viewing slave servers through Webmin have it displaying in difficult to read raw format.

Suggest using named-compilezone or equivalent to display human-readable output. See http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/named-compilezone/

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks .. since I don't have a system running BIND 9.9, do you have an example command that can take a raw-format zone and output it in text format?

Also, what does the raw format look like?

[Anonymous]

Here's what I see in PuTTy:
^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^AR^V^Z_^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@[^@^A^@^F^@^@^@^@~V^@^@^@^@^A^@^P
servertest^Ccom^@^@5^Gtestdns^Ccom^@^Ffoobar^Gtestdns^Ccom^@R^V^Z@^@^@^\ ^@^@^N^P^@^Ru^@^@^@~V^@^@^@^@J^@^A^@^B^@^@^@^@~V^@^@^@^@^B^@^P
servertest^Ccom^@^@^Q^Cns1^Gtestdns^Ccom^@^@^Q^Cns2^Gtestdns^Ccom^@

I've also attached the file.

The master file looks like this:

$ttl 38400
servertest.com. IN  SOA testdns.com. foobar.testdns.com. (
         1377180224
         7200
         3600
         1209600
         38400 )
servertest.com. IN  NS  ns1.testdns.com.
servertest.com. IN  NS  ns2.testdns.com.

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks - but do you know of a command or library that can convert the raw format to regular records?

[Jamie Cameron]

Reading of slave zones in raw format will be supported in Webmin 1.670.