Manually updating zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c63n5l$284f$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Mike Diggins <diggins at McMaster.CA> wrote:

> What I'd like to do is stop dynamically updating my slaves with this
> particular zone and load it up manually (perhaps via CRON) at a controlled
> interval (say once a day). How do I tell BIND 9.2 not to dynamically
> update the zone (in the config) and how I can trigger this update
> manually?

Change it from "type slave" to "type master" in the named.conf files on 
the slaves, and use a file transfer protocol in the cron job to copy the 
zone file from the master to the slaves.  After transferring the file, 
use "rndc reload <zonename>" to trigger it to reload the file.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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