BIND not loading into memory on first transfer

[Frank Even]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
<uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
>> <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the SOA? It's possible that the zones were not expired, so they
>>> were
>>> provided as saved on disk. Since BIND wasn't able to transfer newer
>>> versions, it continued providing old versions.
>
>
> On 26.03.15 12:48, Frank Even wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the old versions were provided on disk on initial load.  But that
>> was then followed up with  a SUCCESSFUL zone transfer minutes later,
>> but the server was unable to save the tmp file in the working
>> directory and served stale content until about 2 hours later when the
>> server was able to get another successful zone transfer from the
>> master and then loaded the new zone in memory (despite being unable to
>> write the tmp file to update the local copy of the zone).
>
>
> what didthe logs say?
> Looks like the first transfer wasn't really successful (or the zone was
> rejected)

Logs indicated successful transfer, permission denied writing the
tmp-xxxxx file that happens prior to writing it out to the zone file
itself.