[dns-operations] db- files on secondary dns server

[Steven Carr]

On 21 January 2014 13:12, Ayca Taskin (Garanti Teknoloji) <
AycaTa at garanti.com.tr> wrote:

>  We’re using Bind DNS server  with version BIND 9.9.2 as a secondary
> (slave) dns server. We saw there is a lot of files starting with “db-“
>  under /var/named directory and updating continuously. does anybody  know
> what it is?
>

Really for bind-users and not dns-operations...

But in response, those files are cached copies of the slave zones you are
serving. Bind will transfer and keep a copy of these zones to enable bind
to serve the data immediately on a restart, otherwise it would have to
perform a zone transfer on start-up and if the master is no longer
available then bind wouldn't be able to serve the zone.

Steve
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