'd evening, dear monkers,

just wondering if there is new knowledge around regarding the ways available to parse bind9.x config files (named.conf).

I've had a look on SuperSearch and found an - older - node (157596) containing some ideas, but so far I'm rather unhappy with everything I tried (admittedly, rather superficial, stepping back at the first problem encountered with each approach).

Here's what I looked over so far:
  1. BIND::Conf_Parser - doesn't deal with 9.x
  2. BIND::Config::Parser - bails out with 'Bad text' on my named.conf (which is working ok, of course).
  3. Cpanel - near to impossible to cut out something usable outside cpanel
  4. Webmin - seems to deal only with bind 8.x
  5. the /usr/sbin/named-checkconf utility packed with bind.9 - gives just an OK/not ok verdict upon named.conf, no way to store the underlying structure.
Is there some other way to have an (reasonable) easy ride with this?

Many thanks.

In reply to How to parse a bind9.x config file (named.conf?) by Anonymous Monk

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