Confused

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a4ri4v$iht at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Nate <nnord at maxitd.com> wrote:
>
>I'm running DNS on Redhat 7.2 and I'm really confused about something.
> I setup all our zones using GNOME and everything worked fine.  I've
>made changes remotely to the zone files, restarted NAMED, and queried
>the server to make sure everything works.  A couple days later I
>notice DNS errors involving the changes that I made directly to the
>zone files.  I corrected the errors and query again and everything
>appears fine but... just for grins I go into GNOME and the DNS config
>tool still sees the old entries.  What zone files is it using and why
>am I seeing these issues?  One change that I just made is correct in
>the zone file, queries come back correct, but the GNOME DNS config
>tool is still seeing the old values even after restarting.  It seems
>that after a certain period of time, the /var/named zone files update
>themselves from where ever the xconfig tool is getting it's info. 

You should probably be asking this in a GNOME newsgroup rather than a BIND
newsgroup.  My guess is GNOME is updating /etc/hosts and then using a
script to convert that to a BIND zone file.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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