extra dns zone files for backup zone?

[F. Even]

Thanks a bunch.  I was hoping it was normal....

A friend of mine said those files were possibly left over indicating a
failed zone transfer for whatever reason.

Thanks,
Frank

On 9/20/03 4:47 AM, "Patrick Okui" <pokui at one2net.co.ug> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 04:02, dfjkl wrote:
>> Is it normal to see files like this:
>> 
> 
> yes IMHO, those files AFAIK are the temp files generated by the transfer
> process, one from each primary nameserver. They should be deleted by
> bind when the transfer is done.
> 
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  2189 Sep 19 17:37 zone.org.bak
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 May  1 04:23 zone.org.bak.6dKaRF
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 17 20:22 zone.org.bak.8u8Y1n
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Aug 19 17:39 zone.org.bak.ZxKtb7
>> 
>> ...for a backup slave zone?  These are sitting on a backup ns server that I
>> haven't examined in a little while.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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