Updating records in bind increase serial count but named service does not account for it

Webmin
1

Hi!

Trying to troubleshoot DNS and finally got lost and not sure what to do next.

What I ended up with is that when I update a master zone, Bind increases the serial in the Zone Records File, but for some reason the slave zone on second server(s) is never updated.
Checking rndc zonestatus [zone] returned that the serial had not increased, so no wonder the slave zones were never updated.
Restarting named.service for bind returned the correct increased serial when checking with rndc, and later the slave zones were updated as well.

Thoughts or ideas about what could be causing this?

Thank you :slight_smile:

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Ubuntu 24.04
Webmin version 2.641
2

Where in the Virtualmin UI are you updating the record in the master zone?

3

The zone has been created and edited from Webmin > Servers > Bind DNS Server

(After reading up a bit, does this action, editing the zone from here, not trigger rndc reload of the zone?)

Very new to Virtualmin (still first month) so figuring everything out has been somewhat a learningcurve.

4

If you’ve created them in Webmin, you probably need to do a reload using those buttons in the top right corner while in the Bind module. But why not alter them in Virtualmin? :slight_smile:

5

Ah, so Apply configuration button?
This webmin/virtualmin instance has no servers created, it is basically a server which has the cluster configured and controls some master DNS zones which should not be edited on public servers, only available to be queried on.
So reloading using the button is fine after doing edits if that is required.

6

Yes, I think that should do the trick.