[nsd-users] Synchronizing zone serial #s across zone transfers?

Anand Buddhdev anandb at ripe.net
Sun May 31 00:58:59 UTC 2015


On 30/05/15 21:14, robert.devanna at nospammail.net wrote:

> I have NSD4 slaved as sceondary to a Bind9 primary.
> 
> If I incement a zone file's serial on the bind9 server
> 
> 	grep -i serial /var/chroot/named/namedb/master/MYDOMAIN.com.zone
> 		1433012338    ; Serial, Timestamp: [ 2015.05.30 11:58:58 ]
> 
> 	( increment serial )
> 	rnds reload
> 	grep -i serial /var/chroot/named/namedb/master/MYDOMAIN.com.zone
> 		1433012595    ; Serial, Timestamp: [ 2015.05.30 12:3:15 ]
> 
> and monitor logs @ nsd4
> 
> [2015-05-30 18:59:00.038] nsd[30991]: info: zone MYDOMAIN.com serial
> 1432943027 is updated to 1433011794.
> 
> notice that the 'new' serials do NOT correspond for the zone @ primary & secondary.
> 
> 	@ bind9:  1433012595
> 	@ nsd4:   1433011794
> 
> Iiuc, they're supposed to.

Is your BIND server configured to send a notify message to the NSD4
slave? Is the NSD4 slave actually configured to transfer zones from your
BIND primary?

Without seeing the configurations of both sides, it's hard to say if
there's any subtle error in either one of them causing this behaviour.

Anand



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