BIND 8 dynamic updates

[Kevin Darcy]

Andrew wrote:

>Understand that received dynamic updates first recorded in .log file, and 
>then "flushed" to actual zone file at some interval.
>
>What is the interval?  How is it controlled?
>
>I get updates, see them in the log, can answer queries against the 
>entries...but never get written to the zone file. 
>
The Dynamic Updates are immediately visible in any queries or zone 
transfers of the relevant zone, and will persist even across a reboot or 
restart of the nameserver. Why do you care what's in the actual zone 
file? No scripts should be reading it. It's not safe to rely on any 
reads of a file that's constantly being written to by an unrelated 
process anyway; you could get partial and/or corrupted data...

                                                                         
                                                   - Kevin