newbie to DDNS question RE: foo.com.log and foo.com.ixr

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 04:31:32PM -0500, Anthony Golia wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm familiar with most other aspects of Bind except the DDNS
> implementation.  I notice that foo.com.log and foo.com.ixfr get created
> when dynamic DNS is enabled (and used).  Also, Bind seems to
> periodically overwrite my foo.com zone file, incorporating the
> DDNS changes.  Can someone explain (or point me in the right direction):
> 
> -    How/when are these foo.com.ixfr and foo.com.log files used?
> -    Given that I nightly, automatically generate my foo.com zone file,
> how can I prevent losing the dynamic info?

To the second: have the dynamic info in a separate zone, perhaps a
sub-zone.

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