using $INCLUDE with views
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Oct 9 15:17:49 UTC 2006
In article <egckbv$8q9$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>
wrote:
> BIND 9.2.4 on Debain Stable
>
> Does bind take views into consideration when checking the SOA serial
> number?
Only slave servers check the serial number -- they compare the serial
number on the master with the one they already have loaded.
>
> I'm using views to have different internal an external zone files for
> the same domain.
>
> The zones are very similar -- the internal one just has internal IPs
> added, and the external has additional NS records.
>
> In my first attempt I put the SOA in the common $INCLUDE file. Upon
> restart, though, it seemed only one zone was loaded (axfr only worked
> from the LAN side).
Were there any log messages complaining about the external view?
>
> I moved the SOA out of the common file and into each of the two zone
> files and then it worked fine.
>
> Was that because I had two zone files (for the same domain) with the
> same SOA serial number?
I can't think of any reason why this would matter.
>
> I'm wondering if using views requires anything special with regard to
> the serial numbers.
>
> For example, if my internal view of a zone has serial 100 and my
> external has 99, if I bump my external to 100 will bind see the change
> in the serial? Or will it think there's no change since it's already
> seen 100 for that domain (in the internal view)?
Each view is managed independently.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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