DB getting altered

[Kevin Darcy]

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

>Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>I have a customer that says his zone DB is getting altered somehow and =
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>I=20
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>>see the DB file starts with this line:
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>>;BIND DUMP V8
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>>Trying to see if someone knows why this might occur?  This is not what=20
>>they are normally expecting to see.
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>Looks like it's created with 'ndc dumpdb' command. Double-check=20
>the config to make shure the dump-file does not overwrite something.
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No, it's much more likely that Dynamic Update is enabled for the zone, 
in which case they shouldn't be looking at the zone file directly at 
all, since it's not guaranteed to be up to date. Use "dig" or a similar 
utility to look at the zone data.

                                                                         
                                                      - Kevin