BIND ignores changes in zonefiles

[Mark Pettit]

On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Marian Roess wrote:

> Thank you for your quick answer.
> 
>> You've possibly checked all this, but let me ask anyway:
>> 
>> 1. Are you monitoring named logs when reload the zones? Any errors?
> 
> Yes, I do. 
> 
> 	zone cs.uni-dortmund.de/IN: loaded serial 1121661332
> 
>> 2. Have you run your generated zonefiles through `named-checkzone'?
>>   Errors? Warnings? (e.g. an underscore in a name?)
> 
> 	zone cs.uni-dortmund.de/IN: loaded serial 1121661332
> 	OK
> 
>> 3. You say named is realoding the file with its correct SOA serial
>>   number. Have you verified by querying named?
>> 
>>        dig @127.0.0.1 <zone> SOA
> 
> Here might be an error. 
> 
> 	cs.uni-dortmund.de.     86400   IN      SOA    
> waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de. 	hostmaster.cs.uni-dortmund.de. 1121631141
> 14400 1800 3600000 7200
> 
> The serialnumber in the SOA record is lower than the serial number BIND
> pretends to load in the logs. But why would BIND log to load the right
> zone, but use an old one?

Check to see if more than one copy of BIND is running.  Maybe the new one loaded the new serial but there was already a BIND running with the old.

Have you tried "rndc reload cs.uni-dortmund.de" to see if it will re-load the file from disk?