programmatically determining whether any zones frozen?

[Kevin Darcy]

On 4/8/2011 10:56 AM, jeffreyp wrote:
> greetings,
>
> is there a way to programmatically determine if there are any zones
> frozen?  if so, any way to determine the specific zone(s)?
>
> what i'm wanting to do is write a monitoring script to sound an alert if
> there are any zones that have been frozen for more then x minutes.
>
> rndc doesn't provide that info and i haven't found anything else to
> accomplish the task.
Try a "dummy" Dynamic Update and see if it gets REFUSED (???)

Generally speaking, it would be the Dynamic Update clients that alert if 
they can't get their updates done, not something you'd monitor directly 
on the server itself.

I think a better question to ask is: why are zones being frozen in the 
first place? We never freeze our zones. All updates are done through 
Dynamic Update, even the "specials" or break/fix stuff. At the risk of 
sounding like a Dynamic Update snob, I consider the freeze/thaw stuff 
just an awkward transition mechanism on the way to a "pure" Dynamic 
Update environment.

                                                                         
                                                             - Kevin