<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On 21 January 2014 13:41, Ayca Taskin (Garanti Teknoloji) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AycaTa@garanti.com.tr" target="_blank">AycaTa@garanti.com.tr</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We’re using Bind DNS server with version BIND 9.9.2 as a secondary (slave) dns server. We saw there is a lot of files starting with “db-“ under /var/named directory and updating
continuously. does anybody know what it is?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I already responded to this when you posted on dns-operations...<br><br>Those files are cached copies of the slave zones you are serving. Bind will transfer and keep a copy of these zones to enable bind to serve the data immediately on a restart, otherwise it would have to perform a zone transfer on start-up and if the master is no longer available then bind wouldn't be able to serve the zone.<br>
<br>Steve <br></div></div></div></div>