domain.comX, domain.comXX

[Bill Larson]

On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Ryan McCain wrote:
>> I noticed a few of the zones I pull down have the main zone file,  
>> domain.com, then a few others, domain.comX, domain.comXX, etc.   
>> Can someone explain what is going on here or forward me to the  
>> appropriate link to read about this.
>>
>> I googled for "bind comXX" and nothing came up.

I'd take a guess that someone created some additional zones, possibly  
for internal use or maybe testing.

Ryan, why not post your named.conf file?  This isn't anything  
standard, so you are making us do some heavy duty crystal ball gazing  
while trying to help you out.

Bill Larson

> Hmmm... What version of BIND is this? My initial thought was that  
> these
> were temporary zone files of some sort, but BIND 9 uses the
> "tmp-XXXXXXXXXX" template for its temp files (see the #define TEMPLATE
> in lib/isc/unix/file.c), and I've verified this with truss on a  
> Solaris box:
>
> /2: open("tmp-QJkiFMUAqe", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666) = 9
>
> I suppose an older version of BIND (8 or 4) might have formed temp  
> names
> by just appending Xs to the the zone name, but I don't specifically
> remember that convention.
>
> Are you sure the "XX" filenames aren't defined anywhere in your  
> named.conf?
>
> - Kevin
>
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