Error messages during zone transfer

[Kevin Darcy]

If you didn't have a backup file, why on earth was named trying to load a
non-existent file? Seems like a bug to me.

Does anyone actually *purposely* run slave zones without backup files? I think
it's high time BIND made backup files mandatory for slave zones...


- Kevin

John Aughey wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mathias K=F6rber wrote:
> > So these on't happen during the zonetransfer, butnitial statup of the
> > secondary?
>
> You're probably right, it is during the initial startup.  I assumed it was
> during a zone transfer because I figured that is the first thing it would
> do.  Your message helped solve the problem...read on.
>
> > Sounds like what it says: The backup file named for each zone does not ha=
> ve
> > a valid zone in it (missing records).
>
> I did not have a backup file named for any of the entries.  I made the
> assumption that if I didn't put a file keyword in each zone block that it
> would simply keep it all in memory.  I put a seperate backup file name for
> each zone and that did the trick.
>
> Thank you
> John Aughey