Bind and ndc dumpdb

[Douglas J Hunley]

Brian Witowski spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into:
> Straight to the point, it doesn't dump to the file specefied in the config
> file.  In fact it doesn't dump anywhere that I can tell.  Logs just say
> "dumping database" or a simile thereof.  I have tried different permissions
> on the file (named_dump.db) but it doesn't matter.  I have also tested to
> see if the box is acutally resolving names using dig.  The first time I do
> a 'dig' there's about 250ms delay.  The second time there's maybe a few ms.
> And it says its getting it from my server.  So I believe its caching.

if you have the following in /etc/named.conf:
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "named_dump.db";

then it *should* dump to /var/named/named_dump.db

what bind version?
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