journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone

[Mark Pettit]

You don't necessarily have to get rid of the cron job to keep journal files.

"ixfr-from-differences" is intentionally designed to allow you to arbitrarily replace the zone file and yet continue to keep your .jnl files.

However, I too have run into rollforward errors with my use of "ixfr-from-differences" and overwriting the zone file.  It has to do with how updates are processed and changes written to the journal.  I have a bug open with ISC and they're working on it.

It's a very serious issue for us because it takes zones completely offline, which is not acceptable in a production setting.

TL;DR: Be careful with ixfr-from-differences and make sure you're not getting "rollforward" errors.

On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Chris Buxton wrote:

> 
> On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:19 AM, Bryton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Not at all.Everything is automated via cron.Zone is generated from one
>> server cron pushes to another then cron reload bind...
> 
> Figure out why you're getting a journal file. If you need to have a journal file (i.e. you need whatever mechanism caused it to be created), then you have to get rid of your cron job, or modify how it works. Arbitrarily replacing a zone file when there's a journal file can cause exactly the problem you're seeing.
> 
> Chris Buxton
> BlueCat Networks
> 
>> On 04/12/2012 02:03 PM, Phil Mayers wrote:
>>> On 12/04/12 11:50, Bryton wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have observer a SERVFAIL error in one of my zone.On checking the logs
>>>> I realized there is this error
>>>> 
>>>> /journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone/
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to learn more about it and I found out the solution is to delete
>>>> the journal file and restart bind.I tried that and it works.Now I wonder
>>>> what is the reason for such error and what the permanent solution to
>>>> mitigate it.
>>> 
>>> Did you or someone else edit the zone file by hand, without "freeze"/"thaw" the zone first?
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