slave records beginning with db-
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jan 22 23:32:40 UTC 2004
Jeff Lasman wrote:
>I've noticed zonefile records beginning with "db-" among the zonefiles
>in one of my slave servers. Not that many of them, but over 20.
>
>I restarted a slave server today and noticed a new one was created.
>
>Exmaination shows that they're for what appear to be random domains, and
>there is also a complete transferred file for that domain.
>
>The slave nameserver appears to work, but I can't help but be curious.
>
>I tried a lookup in google, but that didn't work because it ignores the
>"-" and finds all occurrences of db, which is a lot.
>
>I tried a lookup of the list archives and didnt' find anything.
>
>Can someone explain?
>
They're just tempfiles. If you have stale ones, this implies that your
nameserver died or crashed ungracefully at some point.
- Kevin
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