too many zone transfers after a reconfig

Thu Aug 3 08:57:36 UTC 2000

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:20:56AM +1000, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> 	I suggest that you look for other messages from named indicating
> 	error is children / grandchildren of dk.  I suspect that dk is
> 	being reloaded because other zones have expired and dk is being
> 	reloaded to replace glue that would might have been occulted by
> 	the child zone.

That makes sense. It seems the dk zone is reloaded whenever
an expired slave zone has been detected. Thanks.

Nowhere below, an ndc reload was made, only `ndc reconfig'.

# egrep "\"dk\"|expired|reload" /var/adm/messages |grep -v in-addr.arpa
Aug  2 00:37:20 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:01:30 ns named[14946]: reloading nameserver
Aug  2 11:01:40 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "lemvihs.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:03:03 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:03:06 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "toendts.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:04:29 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:04:29 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:04:36 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "ifa.au.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:06:27 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "nrnissumsem.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:07:50 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:07:50 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:07:51 ns named[14946]: reloading nameserver
Aug  2 11:09:16 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)Aug  2 11:09:18 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "hundigeskolen-greve.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:10:41 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:10:41 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:14:36 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:14:36 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:14:49 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "jellebakkeskolen.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:16:14 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:16:14 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:25:25 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "frb-privatskole.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:26:50 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:27:53 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "vih.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:29:16 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 11:29:16 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 11:46:46 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "vuckb.dk" expired
Aug  2 11:48:09 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 12:06:48 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "nrnissumsem.dk" expired
Aug  2 12:08:13 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 15:05:50 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 16:08:21 ns named[14946]: reloading nameserver
Aug  2 16:09:05 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "ifa.au.dk" expired
Aug  2 16:09:09 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "toendts.dk" expired
Aug  2 16:10:32 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 16:10:53 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "lemvihs.dk" expired
Aug  2 16:12:16 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 16:12:16 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 16:12:18 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "jellebakkeskolen.dk" expired
Aug  2 16:13:41 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 16:13:41 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)
Aug  2 16:14:16 ns named[14946]: secondary zone "nrnissumsem.dk" expired
Aug  2 16:15:40 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080102)
Aug  2 16:15:40 ns named[14946]: suppressing duplicate notify ("dk" IN SOA)

> > Why is my slave server transferring the 'dk' zone very often?
> > 
> > I run a slave server (ns-soa.darenet.dk) for the country
> > toplevel zone 'dk' with  bind-8.2.2-P5.
> > The zone file is over 30Mb large.
> > 
> > While the transfor goes on, named is non-responsive to
> > queries, which makes this a big problem. On Aug 2, I
> > did an 'ndc reconfig' twice, at 11:02 and once again
> > a few minutes later.
> > 
> > It seems to settle at night.
> > 
> > /etc/namedb # grep '"dk"' /var/adm/messages
> > Aug  1 11:57:13 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080
> > 100)
> > Aug  1 13:17:56 ns named[14946]: slave zone "dk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000080
> > 100)
> 	[snip]

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