From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: The Domain Name Service GUI just stopped working, in that it stopped saving any changes to the zone files. I manually modified the files (when it stopped saving) and they are picked up by named, but not by the Domain Name Service GUI. i even tried rebooting multiple times. There was no error or core dump, and I cannot seem to reset the program to re-read the zone files for configuration. Any workaround to force this progam to re-read the zone files woudl be appreciated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Basically enter several DNS entries all at once, without saving in between. 2.Try to save. It will not save the all of the changes. 3.Once it stops saving the changes, it is impossible to get it working properly again. Actual Results: No longer creates/updates zone files. Expected Results: Should have saved and read zone files. Additional info: The zone files ARE correct (the ones I made by hand), I know becuase I just copied one that was successfully created and made a few changes. Plus named reads and works as expected based upon the info in the zone files.
I found a workaround. Since the Domain Name Service GUI ussually reflects some of the previously entered changes (but not any new additional ones). It can be reset (to start saving cheanges again) by: 1) Bringing up the DNS GUI. 2) Move the etc/named.conf to etc/named.old (just in case). 3) Move the var/named/<NAME>.zone to var/named/<NAME>.old for each zone file that stops getting updated. (again, just in case). 4) Click on Apply in the DNS GUI menu. Now the GUI will re-write the named.conf file and any unaffected zone files. The only problem is that the user must re-enter all the zone info (from the moved/bad zone files) through the GUI. The positive affect is that the DNS GUI will again start working and will save all future changes (unless the problem occurs again....so periodic backups are recommended).
You are not supposed to edit the bindconf files by hand. Data is stored in a separate xml file.