Checking for zone expiration?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 21 19:59:15 UTC 2012


In article <mailman.837.1337627794.63724.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Alan Batie <alan at peak.org> wrote:

> We had a rather key zone mysteriously expire on a slave this morning -
> the log files show a transfer a couple weeks ago, but it hadn't been
> updated so there was no reason for one since and there were no log
> entries about failed connection attempts.  I was wondering if there's a
> way to check the remaining time on a zone for monitoring?  If you fetch
> the SOA, you get the full ttl, for obvious reasons, not the server's
> timer...

Check the modification time of the zone file on the slave server, that's 
when it was last refreshed.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA



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