On 9/22/25 06:55, Havard Eidnes via bind-users wrote:
Hi,I'm trying to extend my personal "rndc subcommand" reportoire, and for this particular problem we're seeing, "rndc showzone" would have been useful. However, in our cases, both with BIND 9.18.39 and BIND 9.20.13 that command just completes with the message rndc: 'showzone' failed: failure and an exit status of 1. I can't seem to find any trace of this in the logs I've configured (that might be a consequence of our logging configuration). I'm wondering "Is this just me and my configuration?" Regards, - Håvard
`rndc showzone` requires 'allow-new-zones' to be enabled, either globally or for the view in which the zone resides. This is likely the cause of the failure you're seeing. This could perhaps be a little more obvious in the error message (if possible), or at least in the documentation.
Note that the command does *not* show the DNS records in the zone, but rather the named configuration that defines the zone.
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