Update zone on slave?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Aug 19 01:40:20 UTC 2005


In article <de2nvo$2ct4$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Mader, Cary J" <cary.mader at eds.com> wrote:

> Probably a stupid question, but would rather be safe than sorry on this.
> 
> Just moved the master name server for a delegated domain to another
> location, so it's been down, and it's got a new ip address.   Can I
> safely update the zone file on the slave, which was copied from the
> master....until the master is getting picked up again?  Assume that once
> the master is back up, that the slave will copy the lastest zone file
> from the master.

Yes.  Just make sure that the SOA serial number on the master is higher 
than what you put on the slave.

> 
> Related question...the slave has an empty zone file that has what
> appears to be a generated suffix, so it looks something like
> "bar.foo.com.Azx40x", and it has a recent timestamp.  Just curious on
> the purpose of that file, perhaps indicates the last time the master was
> read?

That's the temporary file that a zone transfer is being written to.  If 
the zone transfer were successful, it would get renamed to the normal 
zone file name.

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