On 21 January 2014 13:41, Ayca Taskin (Garanti Teknoloji) < ayc...@garanti.com.tr> wrote:
> 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? > I already responded to this when you posted on dns-operations... 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. Steve
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