In message <1343137909.13057.yahoomail...@web125605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, =?iso- 8859-1?Q?Kov=E1cs_Albert?= writes: > Hello, > > I have bind 9.9.1-P1 as a slave dns. I noticed that it couldn't access some z > ones from the master server, and it renamed some zone files to "db-xxxxxxxx" > > The following message was logged: > > "zone foo.bar/IN: unable to load from 'foo.bar.zone'; renaming file to 'db-L3 > yXPcbQ' for failure analysis and retransferring." > > My question is how to make the slave server not to touch the zone file (and k > eep serving the zone) if the master dns server weren't available? > > Alberto
As of BIND 9.9.0 the default file format for slave zones is now 'raw'. This was done to speed up the loading of the server. The first time you run named after upgrading from a earlier version it will attempt to load the backup file. This will fail and the standard error handling will kick in. Named renames the backup file for later analysis, logs that it is doing this then it retransfers the zone from the master. The zone will then be written to disk in raw format. If you switch back to a earlier version named will do the same thing except the file will be written in master (text) format. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
