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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: dns failure - Time Warp Date: 19 Apr 1997 08:18:47 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5j9v57$sfa@nike.volvo.se> References: <jpdavidE8uxx6.n39@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6670 Removing all data files on the secondary before adjusting time backwards would cure this. Named will get confused when the (secondary)files are newer then current time. To avoid this in the future, startd ntp and use for continous syncronizing. hockey fan (jpdavid@netcom.com) wrote: : I am running a BSDI 2.1 box as a secondary name server. I noticed that : over the last year or so, the time on the primary had slipped forward : about 10 hours, and the time on the secondary (BSDI) has slipped : forward about 4 hours. : First on the primary, I set the time, then I went over and set the : time on secondary name server. : About an hour later, I noticed that name lookups using the secondary : server were failing. I went to the console, and couldn't lookup : anything, including itself. I looked at the db records, and everything : seemed good. I figured named must have just broken. I ran : named.restart, and got the error: db.dname Time Warp : I figured the problem must be related to changing the time backwards. : So I set it forward 1 day, and now it is working again. : Question: How can I set the correct time without freaking named out? : Was it the fact that I set the primary time back, secondary time back, : or both? Any explanation of how time affects dns would be : appreciated! : Thanks! : jk : -- : | John Kordic | jpdavid@netcom.com | // Amiga!! :( :( | : | Fight On USC! | Go Kings! Go Ducks! | \X/ 'O Bar E O Meu Lar!' | -- -- <peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!) Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27