All, So, I have a name server which mainly serves as a slave to many primary name servers. In the /var/named and /var/named/slaves directories, I have hundreds of what appear to be zone files and fragments of zone files which have names like the following:
db-XXhvbyOD db-XXYPXABn db-XXHx9Wtv db-XXYsAFPU db-XXhXi7Sy db-XXysBfcZ db-XXHYg2QS db-XXYtr80l db-XXHz9R3S db-XXyUA1fS db-XXhzcbFV db-XXyuVWE4 db-XXHZFzln db-XXyvRSSP I have a few hundred zone files, and a few thousand of these temp files. They appear to be created in bunches at a time, at irregular intervals ranging from a day to a month. What makes them appear ? What do they do for how long ? Why don't they go away when that stops happening ? I am sure they are safe to delete, but I wanna know why the appear. The OS is CentOS 3.7 running the stock BIND 9.2.4 Thanks, Mike -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting 858-576-7325 Voice http://www.m5hosting.com ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
