Method of writing zone files

[Tony Finch]

Marcus Frenkel <marcus.frenkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to know how BIND writes to slave zone files after zone has been
> updated. Does it modify the file in place or it replaces the file with
> new one at once?

Changes are written to a journal append-only style. Every so often the
master file is rewritten to incorporate the contents of the journal; this
is done by writing to a new file and renaming it in place of the old one.

Tony.
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