Bind 9 slaves - new zones are never picked up

[Kevin Darcy]

mhageman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am migrating from bind 8.2.4 to bind 9.  Our house master and all but
>two slave are running bind 8.2.4.  I replaced one of the main
>production slaves with an AIX 5.2 box running 9.2 last week.
>
>The new slave, and a backup AIX 5.1 box running 9.2.1 are performing
>well except in one area:  we add and delete zones regularly because we
>are a "project" support site and we have customers with different name
>and IP zones coming-and-going regularly.  The bind 9 production (and
>backup) box NEVER transfer/service the new zones.    rndc requests
>don't help.  refresh -s named doesn't help.  I've had to resort to
>kill-9 and restarting (TERM takes too long as the servers are always
>very busy).  Needless to say, this is completely unacceptable.
>
>Our procedure for updating DNS is a much-modified "h2n" within a shell
>that runs on the master and "rdists" the changed named.conf files to
>our slave servers.  Worked great on V4.  Works great on V8 - the slaves
>AXFR the new zones pretty quickly.
>
>Doesn't work at ALL on bind 9.  So I am missing something, and it must
>be something in the configuration.
>
"rndc requests don't help" isn't particularly illuminating. What rndc 
commands did you send, in what order? What responses did you get back? 
What do the logs say?

                                                                         
                  - Kevin