controlling size of jnl file for dynamic updates

[Mark Andrews]

> I recently have picked BIND to use as a dns server in a project I am
> doing.  To keep it brief I end up sending a lot of ddns updates to
> bind because this project involves a lot of IPs that are constantly
> changing.
> 
> So far tests have shown that BIND is working very well and handling
> all the updates fine.  The only problem I have uncovered is with the
> size of the jnl file.  Over time after many updates the jnl file grows
> to a substantial size (right now after some initial testing it is
> already at the 500MB mark).  I have onlly found one way to reduce the
> size of the file and that is to stop the server, remove the file and
> the start the server again.  This works because when you stop BIND it
> writes all of the jnl entries into the zone file.
> 
> Is there any configuration or other way I can limit the size or
> truncate this file?  It is very critical that this server remain up
> and even taking it down for the breif period of time to remove the jnl
> file is very undesireable right now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jeff

	Upgrade to 9.3 and use max-journal-size.

	zone "example.net" {
		...
		max-journal-size #;
	};
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