Temporary Zone Transfer Files

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Jan 27 02:36:56 UTC 2001


         Upgrade to the latest version of BIND 8.2.3-T9B on the same site.
   It's already fixed.  There's nothing bad about the files and they can
   be deleted safely.

                 Danny

At 10:24 AM 1/26/01, Rainer Ginsberg wrote:

>Hello together,
>
>I am using the Windows NT version of BIND 8.2.3-T6B "NT2" which I 
>downloaded from <http://bind8nt.meiway.com/>.
>
>In named.conf, I have defined some stub zones and those zones's files 
>are stored in a special subdirectory. In that subdirectory, I find 
>a lot of temporary zone transfer files named something like 
>         db.example.com.ixfr.tmp.a12345
>if db.example.com was the filename specified for that zone. All those 
>files are 0 Bytes in size.
>
>Is there a way to tell BIND not to leave these temporary files but 
>instead delete them after usage, or not create them at all?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Rainer
>
>-- 
>Rainer Ginsberg
>Robert Bosch GmbH
>QI/INF4, IT Security
>Phone: +49-711-811-31263




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