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validns-0.11.0

DNS and DNSSEC zone file validator

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Description

Validns is a standalone command line RFC 1034/1035 zone file validation tool that, in addition to basic syntactic and semantic zone checks, includes DNSSEC signature verification and NSEC/NSEC3 chain validation, as well a number of optional policy checks on the zone.

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Ports path
net/validns
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Caspar Schutijser <caspar@openbsd.org>
Categories
net
Available flavors
None listed

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