How to force named to write dynamic data

[Bob Vance]

I guess a concern, a priori, would be if the server crashed and the
zone files were not updated.
In fact, this seems to be a problem, at least with 8.2.2-p7 & 8.2.3-T9B.
If some dynamic updates are made, they are indeed in memory.
If I then 'kill -9' on the named process within a couple of minutes of
restarting, then any dynamic data in those couple of minutes are lost
forever.

It would seem that 'named' needs a way to save the dynamic updates to
files and when reloading, if the files are still there, merge those
changes back in, similar to what it does on a termination.
Would the IXFR files work?


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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:09 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: How to force named to write dynamic data



Why do you care? Dynamic Updates take effect immediately in named's
memory
regardless of when the zone gets dumped to disk.


- Kevin

gopu at hybrid.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I have Bind 8.2.2-P7 doing dynamic updates. The dynamically updated
records
> gets added to the files only if I send SIGTERM signal to named.
>
> Is there any way I can force named to write the dynamic update to the
files
> without stopping the server. Also any other way to write it at
periodic
> intervals?