If you’re storing your DNS configuration in Git, a pre-commit hook to automatically run named-checkzone before zone file changes are committed may be useful to you. The pre-commit hook I use assumes that zone files (and only zone files) are in the format db.<zonename> (e.g. “db.andyleonard.com”), and only tests zone files (e.g. named-checkconf is not run against configuration files).

This pre-commit hook’s structure is based heavily on a Puppet 2.7 pre-commit published elsewhere. Continue reading →