journal out of syc with zone error

[Barry Finkel]

> I found that one of my zones stopped working correctly. It's a 'made-up'
> zone (mmc.edu) that employs DDNS. I created this private zone so that M$
> active directory could connect to it to list its services.
> Everything was working fine for about a month and then stopped working all
> of a sudden. I restarted named and checked /var/adm/messages and found an
> error like: "dns_zone_load: zone mmc.edu/IN: journal out of sync with zone".
> I understand the basics of ddns but what I don't understand is how this
> happened or how to fix it. I thought that restarting named would resync the
> zone and .jnl file, but it still doesn't work.

As has been pointed out many times in past postings (and Cricket did
not explicitly say so in his reply), once a BIND zone is subject to
DDNS, you MUST not edit the zone by hand.  All of those manual updates
have to be via the nsupdate utility.
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