Getting dynamic entries into their db files

Cherney John-CJC030 John.Cherney at motorola.com
Fri Jun 26 18:49:43 UTC 2009


Is there a way to get dynamic DNS entries out of the jnl files and into
the zone data file? My understanding is that the two usual ways are to
run "rndc stop", or to wait a certain period of time. I'm running BIND
9.3.5-P1 on Solaris 10. What I am trying to do is to stop DNS, make a
backup of all of the db files and then restart DNS. I don't want to make
backups of the jnl files.
 
To complicate matters, I am doing this on Solaris 10, which uses SMF for
starting and stopping DNS. The command svcadm disable
svc:/network/dns/server:default does stop DNS, but it doesn't appear to
write the dynamic data to the zone data file. 
 
So:
Is there a better BIND related way of getting that dynamic data into the
zone data file?
Is there a better SUN related way of getting that dynamic data into the
zone data file?
 
Originally, I had changed the SUN SMF stop method from ":kill" to "rndc
stop", and that worked fine, except in some cases, it was noticed that
named was not restarting on reboot. Changing the stop method back to
":kill" seems to care of that problem, but opens up that dynamic update
commit problem. 
 
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
jwc
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