in a BIND 10 ready data source format.
Master files are text files that contain DNS Resource Records
in text form.
- This utility can also be used to empty current content, if any,
- of the specified zone from the specified data source so the
- existence of the zone is recognized in the data source without
- any content (resource records).
+ This utility can also be used to create an empty zone on the
+ specified data source so the existence of the zone is recognized
+ in the data source without any content (resource records).
</para>
<note><simpara>Currently only the SQLITE3 data source is supported.
</simpara></note>
If the <command>-e</command> command line option is specified,
<command>b10-loadzone</command> does not take the zone name
argument.
- In this case it empties any existing content of the specified
- zone from the specified data source while the data source still
- recognizes the existence of the zone. If the zone originally
- didn't exist in the zone, it effectively creates the zone without
- any content.
- This mode of operation can be used for setting up a secondary
- zone before transferring zone content from a primary server.
+ In this case it creates an empty zone without any content
+ while the data source still recognizes the existence of the
+ zone.
+ If the specified zone already has some content, this mode of
+ operation will remove it (but the existence of the zone in the
+ data source will be still recognized).
</para>
</refsect1>
<varlistentry>
<term>-e</term>
<listitem><para>
- Empty any existing zone content instead of loading new one.
+ Create an empty zone, or empty existing zone content
+ instead of loading new one.
When this option is specified, the zone file command line
argument must not be provided.
The <command>-i</command> option has no effect, but it