Problem with BIND 9.1 and INCLUDES

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> BIND experts,
> 
> I have compiled BIND 9.1 on a Sun Solaris machine running OS version 5.7
> 
> I have a zone which we allow dynamic updates to using "allow-update" in the
> named.conf file for that zone. The dynamic updates work fine. I have an
> $INCLUDE statement in the zone data file that includes information on
> machines that do not use dynamic updates. Machines information is appended
> to that file and that file should be included in the zone data file.
> 
> Here is the problem. The information from the file gets included but, the
> $INCLUDE statement gets stripped out of the zone data file! Instead the data
> that was in the included file now appears directly in the zone data file.
> While this works for now, the next time a machine is added to the second
> data file it will not be included in the zone data file because the $INCLUDE
> statement is gone!
> 
> Help!
 
	Just use nsupdate to add/delete the entries to the zone in future.

> If you know anything about this issue please let me know
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Allen Billauer
> Systems Administrator
> Mainsoft Corporation
> http://www.mainsoft.com
> 
> P.S. if you reply could you also reply directly to my E-mail address.
> arib at mainsoft.com
> 
> 
> 
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