bind9 answers no queries during AXFR

[Bryan Irvine]

If you are running an RBL that big, perhaps you should look at a 'Gold Server'.

http://www.infrastructures.org/

Make your primary DNS not visable to anyone but you.  Update that,
while it's updating the slave will be available.  Then the notify
should update the slave with without interruption...someone care to
comment as to whether I'm being sane?

--Bryan


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:46:36 +0000 (UTC), Martin H. Sluka
<fany at gemini.office.noris.de> wrote:
> We got a BIND9 server which is a secondary for a very large DNS
> zone (an RBL; about three million entries, 70 MB as file, several
> hundred MB in RAM) that usually updates each few hours.  Even on
> current hardware, the zone transfer (or reading the zone after
> the transfer) takes several minutes.
> 
> The problem is, that BIND9 does not seem to answer _any_ queries
> during the update phase.  Any help to solve this problem would be
> appreciated.  (Splitting the zone is, however, not possible.)
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
>