updating & checking DNS zone files

[lsc at prgmr.com (Luke S Crawford)]

travis+ml-nanog at subspacefield.org writes:
> Apart from using Bernstein's tinydns, anyone have any scripts
> for looking for problems in zone files or for incrementing the
> serial number reliably?

If you are using BIND, your problem is solved by DDNS and nsupdate.  
this has the added advantage of making it significantly more difficult
for the new dns guy (or a buggy script) to take out your nameserver.