Modified a zone, so when it becomes available?

[Sam Wilson]

In article <mailman.508.1253094340.14796.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos.lorenzo at ayto-getafe.org> wrote:

> El mar, 15-09-2009 a las 13:45 +0200, Udo Zumdick escribió:
> > Am Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:28:24 +0200
> > schrieb Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos.lorenzo at ayto-getafe.org>:
> > 
> > [....]
> > > After making changes to zone, updated serial, and rndc reload, I dig my
> > > zone and get always the old serial. The serial and the changes only
> > > appear when I '/etc/init.d/bind restart' it.
> > > 
> > > I use bind 9.5.1 on debian 5.0.3.
> > > 
> > > Any clue?
> > 
> > Maybe there are some .jnl files (IXFR journalfiles) which could prevent 
> > bind from updating the zone ?
> > Removing them and disabling incremental zone transfer might help. I had
> > such problems in the past.
> 
> There are no .jnl files, so I guess is turned off, but anyway, how can I
> know If this is enabled? I don't have any allow-update option...
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Have you checked your log file yet?  I don't know where the debian setup 
puts the messages by default, but you should be able to see messages 
saying what named is doing when you tell it to reload the zone.

Sam