bad zone not loaded

[Tony Finch]

Bob Harold <rharolde at umich.edu> wrote:

> Two suggestions:
> 1. Don't stop/start named.  Instead, do "rndc freeze", update the zone
> files, "rndc thaw", "rndc reload".  If a zone is bad, I think BIND will
> continue to server the old zone.  Also there is no break in service since
> BIND is never stopped.
>
> or more complicated:
> 2. Have your provisioning system update a hidden master DNS server, and
> have the DNS server that others see be a slave.  Only valid zones will
> transfer to the slave.

Run named-checkzone on the master file before installing it.

Tony.
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