nsd users - Nov 2007 - nsd3 as seconday, and the zonefile

I noticed that nsd (at least 3.0.6) when configured as secondary, no
longer stores the zonefiles in "plaintext". I assume all the data is
only stored in the nsd.db file.

However, the config for a zone still requires the zonefile: to be
present or else nsd fails with:

/etc/nsd/nsd.zones:10: error: previous zone has no zonefile

I personally would like to see nsd save the zone files in plaintext
even when used as a secondary. It makes it easier to verify things
for the DNS admin. But if that is not going to be implemented, then
it should not insist on a zonefile keyword in a seconday zone.

Paul

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:11:16 -0500 (EST)
Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> I noticed that nsd (at least 3.0.6) when configured as secondary, no
> longer stores the zonefiles in "plaintext". I assume all the data
is
> only stored in the nsd.db file.
I don't know if that's what you're looking for, but AFAIK NSD does
update the zone data in the configured files after an 'nsdc patch',
which flushes the journal data. You might want to configure a cron job
to do this regularly.

HTH,
Simon

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