Load old revision of zone

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4918F6EA.1080707 at chrysler.com>, Kevin Darcy writes:
> Mark Andrews wrote:
> > In message <fa2e1350811071712v73baa633p7dacae3db5225466 at mail.gmail.com>, "J
> onat
> > han Petersson" writes:
> >   
> >> I recall someone mentioning the bind has the functionality of loading old
> >> revisions of a zone-file when using dynamic updates. Is this correct? If y
> es
> >> how is this done?
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> /Jonathan
> >>     
> >
> > 	named loads the master file and the changes that have occured
> > 	since then from a journal of changes.  The zone is marked
> > 	as dirty when change is made and a timer is started to tell
> > 	named to write out a new master file incorporating all the
> > 	changes made when the timer goes off.  This is done to
> > 	reduce the number of times the master file needs to be
> > 	written when there are lots of changes to the zone.
> >   
> It's also to facilitate incremental zone transfer is it not?

	Yes, but it wasn't applicable to the question.
	
> I was going to mention the "journalprint" utility, but it appears it's 
> been removed :-( Last sighting was 9.3.2 in the bin/tests directory. 
> Anyone know what happened to it? Was it not considered useful enough to 
> maintain?

	journalprint still exists.
 
>                         - Kevin
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