How does zonefile-write work?

NSD
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Hi Dears,

I’m new to NSD and I’m testing it to use in my production environment

I’m confuse how zonefiles-write works.

I created some slave zones in /etc/nsd/nsd.conf.d/

something like that:

/etc/nsd/nsd.conf.d/foo.bar.conf

In this file I have the following content

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Hi Alexander,

[snip]

Ok, here's my doubt. The file /var/lib/nsd/db/00/foo.bar/foo.bar would be
automatically created after 3600 seconds or I could be run "nsd-control
write foo.bar" to create it.

The file 00/foo.bar/foo.bar will be created within at most 3600 seconds. However, you need to ensure that the directory hierarchy 00/foo.bar exists. NSD will not create directories.

If you want to force NSD to write the zone file before 3600 seconds have elapsed, you can do that with "nsd-control write <zone>".

Also note that NSD only writes a new zone file when the zone is updated. If a zone doesn't have any updates, NSD does not write out a new file.

Regards,
Anand

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Hi Alexander,

[snip]

Ok, here’s my doubt. The file /var/lib/nsd/db/00/foo.bar/foo.bar would be
automatically created after 3600 seconds or I could be run “nsd-control
write foo.bar” to create it.

The file 00/foo.bar/foo.bar will be created within at most 3600 seconds.
However, you need to ensure that the directory hierarchy 00/foo.bar
exists. NSD will not create directories.

If you want to force NSD to write the zone file before 3600 seconds have
elapsed, you can do that with “nsd-control write ”.

Also note that NSD only writes a new zone file when the zone is updated.
If a zone doesn’t have any updates, NSD does not write out a new file.

Regards,
Anand

Dear,

Thanks for the answer

Great, I really had no idea that it could be the problem
Now I can proceed with my tests :slight_smile:

Regards