.. option:: addzone zone [class [view]] configuration
- This command adds a zone while the server is running. This command requires the
- ``allow-new-zones`` option to be set to ``yes``. The configuration
- string specified on the command line is the zone configuration text
- that would ordinarily be placed in :iscman:`named.conf`.
+ This command adds a zone while the server is running. This command
+ requires the ``allow-new-zones`` option to be set to ``yes``. The
+ configuration string specified on the command line is the zone
+ configuration text that would ordinarily be placed in :iscman:`named.conf`.
The configuration is saved in a file called ``viewname.nzf`` (or, if
:iscman:`named` is compiled with liblmdb, an LMDB database file called
.. option:: modzone zone [class [view]] configuration
- This command modifies the configuration of a zone while the server is running. This
- command requires the ``allow-new-zones`` option to be set to ``yes``.
- As with ``addzone``, the configuration string specified on the
- command line is the zone configuration text that would ordinarily be
+ This command modifies the configuration of a zone while the server is
+ running. This command requires the ``allow-new-zones`` option to be set
+ to ``yes``. As with ``addzone``, the configuration string specified on
+ the command line is the zone configuration text that would ordinarily be
placed in :iscman:`named.conf`.
If the zone was originally added via :option:`rndc addzone`, the
.. option:: showzone zone [class [view]]
- This command prints the configuration of a running zone.
+ If the server is configured with ``allow-new-zones`` set to ``yes``,
+ then this command prints the configuration of a running zone.
- See also :option:`rndc zonestatus`.
+ See also :option:`rndc addzone`, :option:`rndc modzone`.
+ and :option:`rndc delzone`.
.. option:: sign zone [class [view]]