$INCLUDE directive and reloading zones
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue May 8 14:47:16 UTC 2001
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> Gentle people who have the knowledge,
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> In a lab environment, I'm running BIND8-2-3.REL, 282 zones.
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> A few zones use the $INCLUDE directive to add some extra stuff in the
> zonefiles.
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> I noticed when I do an ndc reload that it will ALWAYS reload the zones with
> the $INCLUDE directive, and then sent out notifies to the secondary, even if
> i didn't increase the serial number, I didn't touch the zone file, and I
> didn't touch the file which is included with the $INCLUDE directive.
>
> Is this default behaviour?
Yes.
> It surely isn't doing what I expected it to do.
Bind isn't make. It just notes that there was an include file.
Reloads just ignore file modification times on zones with
include files and just reload.
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> Any suggestions/comments/bashing on what I am doing here?
Patches to track the include files are welcome.
You could also use make to build your zone files.
In almost all cases where I have seen include files be used
the have been abused resulting in unnecessary zone transfers.
Mark
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> Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke Groet,
>
> Gody Keijzer
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