BIND ignores changes in zonefiles
Mark Pettit
pettit at yahoo-inc.com
Fri Jun 15 06:20:38 UTC 2012
On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Marian Roess wrote:
> Thank you for your quick answer.
>
>> You've possibly checked all this, but let me ask anyway:
>>
>> 1. Are you monitoring named logs when reload the zones? Any errors?
>
> Yes, I do.
>
> zone cs.uni-dortmund.de/IN: loaded serial 1121661332
>
>> 2. Have you run your generated zonefiles through `named-checkzone'?
>> Errors? Warnings? (e.g. an underscore in a name?)
>
> zone cs.uni-dortmund.de/IN: loaded serial 1121661332
> OK
>
>> 3. You say named is realoding the file with its correct SOA serial
>> number. Have you verified by querying named?
>>
>> dig @127.0.0.1 <zone> SOA
>
> Here might be an error.
>
> cs.uni-dortmund.de. 86400 IN SOA
> waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de. hostmaster.cs.uni-dortmund.de. 1121631141
> 14400 1800 3600000 7200
>
> The serialnumber in the SOA record is lower than the serial number BIND
> pretends to load in the logs. But why would BIND log to load the right
> zone, but use an old one?
Check to see if more than one copy of BIND is running. Maybe the new one loaded the new serial but there was already a BIND running with the old.
Have you tried "rndc reload cs.uni-dortmund.de" to see if it will re-load the file from disk?
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