updating zone manually

Mike Diggins diggins at McMaster.CA
Wed Apr 21 12:58:59 UTC 2004


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <c646gi$2j85$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Diggins <diggins at McMaster.CA> writes:
> >
> >     Mike> What I'd like to do is stop dynamically updating my slaves
> >     Mike> with this particular zone and load it up manually (perhaps
> >     Mike> via CRON) at a controlled interval (say once a day). How do
> >     Mike> I tell BIND 9.2 not to dynamically update the zone (in the
> >     Mike> config) and how I can trigger this update manually?
> >
> > You can't. If a zone is controlled by Dynamic DNS, you cannot and must
> > not attempt to update it by hand while the name server is running. Very
> > Bad Things will happen if you ignore this advice.
>
> I don't think he's talking about a zone updated via dynamic DNS.  He
> said it's a slave server transfering from the master.

That's correct, I shouldn't have said 'dynamically'. Thanks for your
solution. I was hoping for something a little more integrated but it
should do what I need.

-Mike




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