detect if zone/s is frozen

[Mark Andrews]

In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.1309040947030.6019 at hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony Finch writes:
> Mike Hoskins (michoski) <michoski at cisco.com> wrote:
> > /dev/rob0 <rob0 at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >I would suggest that if you're making much use of rndc freeze, YDIW.
> > >Consider using nsupdate(8) to make your changes.
> >
> > True, but I just setup two new networks where the tenants wanted exactly
> > this capability...so use cases exist. [...]
> >
> > Failing an easy monitoring solution (I don't see anything in terms of rndc
> > options, or old/new stats output), you might consider creating a wrapper
> > that does the rndc freeze/vi/update serial to mtime/rndc thaw and post it
> > clearly in /etc/motd.  Not perfect, but would mostly work except when you
> > get distracted in the middle of the vi session.  :-)
> 
> Better option: use nsdiff, which calculates the differences between the
> live version of your zone and a master file that you edit, and turns the
> result into an nsupdate script.
> 
> http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/conf/bind/bin/nsdiff

Or zone-edit which is in contrib.
 
> Tony.
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