BIND8 &BIND9 Notify

[Ladislav Vobr]

I am having similar problem,

    What is the best way to synchronize the zone with bind9, in case the
client is the master and has misconfigured his zone serial number and
has something lower than slave but with a uptodate rrs. I used to force
the zone transfer on Bind8 with named-xfer manually -s 0 and then do ndc
reload, it re-read the file and set the lower serial which was on the
master server, and it was fine. With Bind 9, deleting or refreshing zone
will not help since serial is lower then slave has. Do I really have to
stop, delete the file and start ?

......... changing the serial on the master side to higher than slave
will definitely solve it , but I recommended to the customer to stick to
YYYYMMDDXX format which was lower than the slave had.

Ladislav


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

>>On BIND 8.3.4 server (running as stealth server) If I delete zone file and
>>do a kill -HUP then the named z-xfers the zone and everything is fine
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>>On BIND-9.2.2
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>>1. If I delete the zone file then do a delete zone file, kill -HUP it does
>>not  zone-xfer the zone file but continues to serve the data from the old
>>zone file.
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>	Don't do that.
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>>2. If I do a rndc reload - same thing happens
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>	rndc reload applies to master zones.
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>>3. If I do a rndc refresh zone IN view-name then one of two things happens
>>(i) if the bind9 named has only just been started then nothing happens
>>(ii) if the bind9 has been running for  a while then the zone file gets
>>refreshed
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>	rndc refresh will cause named to perform a refresh query.
>	When named starts up it automatically performs refresh
>	queries for all zones.  These are rate limited.  If you
>	issues the rndc refresh early enough you will get caught
>	in the queue.
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>>What is going on ??? I want to be able to, predictably, force a zone-refresh
>>on a 'stealth' server. How do I do it ?
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>>DJ
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