Dynamic updates in bind 8.2

[Kevin Darcy]

rancid moth wrote:

> [snip]
> >
> > If you use Dynamic Update for a zone, you shouldn't manually edit the zone
> > files, regardless of whether you're doing IXFR or not. Dynamic Update is
> > basically an all-or-nothing proposition in BIND; you can't safely mix
> Dynamic
> > Updates and manual edits.
> >
>
> i dont know if that is entirely true.  I cant comment on DDNS update for
> 8.2.5 as is what this discussion is about, but what i can say is that you
> can successfully use DDNS and manual updates with BIND9.2 and DHCP 3.  You
> first stop the named service using
>
> rndc stop
>
> which pushes the latest updates from the jnl file to the ascii zone file.
> then edit the ascii zone file with out touching the index.  then simply
> start named again.  of course you have to wait 15 minutes for the changes to
> be pushed back into the jnl file before you can resolve the newly added
> entries.  works fine for me.

What I said is that you can't *safely* mix Dynamic Updates and manual edits.
Sure you can stop the nameserver. But then you lose any Dynamic Updates that
are attempted while the nameserver is stopped. That's not what I call "safe".


- Kevin