Re: rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Evan, On Sun Jan 27 2013 at 00:10:28 CET, Evan Hunt wrote: > Delzone just means delete the zone from named, not delete the zone file > from the filesystem. (And I reckon we can do a good deal more harm by > deleting files you wanted to keep than by leaving files for you to delete > yourself...)

Re: rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-26 Thread Evan Hunt
> 1. Is named 'deaf' during an `rndc addzone'? I don't think so, but I'm >finding it hard to determine definitely. I'm primarily concerned with >named being able to handle any NOTIFYs it gets. The addzone task (like several other rndc commands) will temporarily acquire exclusive control of

rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Hello, we have a few BIND (9.9) slave servers, each slaving a couple of hundred thousand small zones (a dozen records in each). A file included into named.conf is periodically generated from a database, and named is reconfigured (rndc reconfig) to load new slave zones. I'm considering replacing t