Slave server keeps transfering all zones...

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:23:06PM +0100, Graeme wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if this is normal, but I have only just noticed this.  Our
> master DNS server is running BIND 9.1.0 and the slave server is running BIND
> 9.1.3.  When I started the slave server, it transfered all the zones over,
> and it was was working great.
> 
> Notify from my master server was working well, and the slave was picking up
> changes to zones in a few seconds.  But then I noticed what might be a
> problem.
> 
> I started the server up at around 19:39, and all the zones where transfered
> at that time (using ls -l) to find the time of creation/update.  Then later
> on I went back to the server and noticed all the zone files on the slave had
> the time of 21:36.  So I guess they must of all been re-transfered.
> 
> No updates were made on the master or slave server during this period.  The
> syslog doesn't show any transfers happening, apart from the ones at 19:39.
> There is no crontab job which could cause this or anything else on the
> server which could do this.  Is BIND just changing the time stamp or is
> there a problem?

By any chance, is the fourth number in the SOA ["expire"] 10800 (or 3h)?

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