Zone transfer doesn't work when I set allow-update statement

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Fri Apr 25 21:19:03 UTC 2014


On 04/25/2014 02:04 PM, Evan Hunt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 05:29:30PM -0300, Jeronimo L. Cabral wrote:
>> But the master zone is not refreshed until I execute "service bind9
>> restart" ("service bind9 reload" doesn't refresh the master zone).
>
> The zone has been updated, but the changes are stored in a journal file
> ("zonefile.jnl").  You can look at the contents of the journal file
> with "named-journalprint <filename>".
>
> If you want to dump the current version of the zone to disk so you
> can look at the whole thing, use "rndc sync <zonename>".
>
> (That's assuming this is a fairly recent BIND.  If it doesn't support
> sync, use "rndc freeze <zone>; rndc thaw <zone>".)

Or, just do a zone transfer. No need to freeze/thaw, and no interruption 
to dynamic updates.

Doug



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