Hi Jean-Christophe, Anand's answer is entirely correct.
Once 4.8.0 is released, zone files will be written once per hour by default. Best regards, Jeroen On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 10:48 +0100, Anand Buddhdev via nsd-users wrote: > On 04/12/2023 13:47, Jean-Christophe Boggio via nsd-users wrote: > > Hi Jean-Christophe, > > > When syncing between master and slaves, am I supposed to see new > > files > > appear in the slave's "zonesdir" directory? Because, as you might > > expect, I see nothing here. Is this behavior normal? From what I > > understand, the slave "caches" the data in /var/lib/nsd/nsd.db (I'm > > using debian). > > By default, NSD doesn't write out zone files on the secondary. It > stores > all the data in nsd.db, as you've observed. > > You can make NSD write out zone files, by setting the option > "zonesfile-write" to a number above 0, and setting "zonefile" to > something like "<zonename>.zone" for each secondary zone. NSD will > then > write out changed zones to plain text files. This is in *addition* to > saving the zone data in nsd.db. > > Alternatively, you can disable the database altogether by setting > "database" to the empty string. Then, NSD will not create nsd.db, and > will instead write out zone files every hour (this is for efficiency, > to > prevent too many disk writes on a busy secondary server). > > Note that the "database" option is deprecated, and will go away with > the > upcoming 4.8.0 release. So you should probably disable it in your > config > too. > > Regards, > Anand Buddhdev > _______________________________________________ > nsd-users mailing list > nsd-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl > https://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/mailman/listinfo/nsd-users _______________________________________________ nsd-users mailing list nsd-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl https://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/mailman/listinfo/nsd-users
