Ever growing jnl files

[Jonathan Petersson]

I've seen similar behaviors in earlier versions of BIND as well. Since
it doesn't seam to impact performance etc I haven't really bothered
with it. What you can do is to run an rndc freeze/thaw, this will
check out the journal file.

/Jonathan

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Nicholas F Miller
<Nicholas.Miller at colorado.edu> wrote:
> We have a few dynamic zones that are provisioned using Addhost. When addhost
> adds records to the zone every night it will run "nsupdate < update.file".
> The update.file will contain records like these:
>
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in a
> update delete  machine.colorado.edu. in a
>
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in hinfo
> update delete machine.colorado.edu. in HINFO
>
> This all works fine but the jnl doesn't ever go away after nsupdate runs
> like this. The jnl will continue to be appended to every night when nsupdate
> is run again. If we use nsupdate without feeding it a file the jnl will
> disappear like it's supposed to. Is this a glitch in bind bind-9.5.0-P2?
>
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