Force reload when include changes

[Kevin Darcy]

Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a small 2-server Bind 9.3.4 (soon to move to 9.4.0) installation 
> of 15 domains, which are all serviced by the same mail servers.
> The Bind servers are set up in a typical primary->secondary setup.
>
> Therefore I have an included file, common to all 15 zone files, which 
> contains the MX records.
>
> If I make a change to the included file only, and reload the master, the 
> master applies the changes successfully.  However the slaves aren't 
> notified of the change (presumably because the serial numbers haven't 
> changed.)
>
> So, what I have to do, is either change the serial number in every zone 
> file and then reload the master, or I have to remove the transferred 
> zone files off the slave and reload it so it forces a zone transfer off 
> the master.
>
> I would imagine there's someone out there who's come across this on a 
> larger scale than myself, I'm just wondering how other people have 
> handled it?
>   
Is it an option to $INCLUDE the SOA record as well as the MX records? 
Then you'd only have to update a single SOA.

If you want do this on a larger scale, you should probably do away with 
the $INCLUDE-file hack altogether, and script things in such a way that 
the MX records are changed via Dynamic Update in all relevant zones. 
Then there are no serial-number issues since Dynamic Update does the 
serial-number increment automatically.

                                                                         
- Kevin