will named delete .jnl files ?

[Mark Elkins]

An "rndc <domain> freeze" will consolidate the zone and remove the .jnl
file, which should probably be followed rapidly with a "rndc <domain>
thaw" command...

Even when the .jnl file is huge - I think that BIND writes out its
concept of the zone from its memory - as a freeze runs very quickly.

I guess the .jnl file is used to replay events to a "named" process that
is restarted??

Would be nice if named did a freeze/thaw cycle on being terminated???

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:00 +0800, Li Tongxi wrote:
> Seems NO. Also, in my test, when the updates come in, I can see a lot of tmp
> file and one .jnl file. And I didn't see the changes preserved in my zone
> file. But the DNS works fine and the resolved IP is the updated one not the
> one in zone file. Do we need do some config to make the update preserved in
> the zone file? I'm using BIND9.3.
> 2008/10/7 Jack Tavares <j.tavares at f5.com>
> 
> > I know how named uses the journal files and how data from those
> > will eventually get written to the zone files.
> >
> > My question is:
> >
> > will named ever delete the .jnl files?
> > For instance:
> >
> > updates come in, get stored in .jnl file.
> > <some time later> those changes are preserved in the zone file.
> > does named then delete the .jnl file?
> >
> > My empirical evidence leads me to believe that the answer is "no"
> > but I certainly haven't tested every possibility.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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