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...)

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

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