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Waiting to Bite: BIND and Invalid Zone Files

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It looks like Webmin lets you create DNS entries which BIND 9 does not like. When it sees one it refuses to load the whole zone and keeps what it has in RAM. This may go unnoticed for months until the server is rebooted. BIND then restarts with that zone completely empty!
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Written by David Chappell

January 14th, 2016 at 9:34 pm