[nsd-users] nsd4 not detecting changed included files when rebuilding database

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Jeroen,

On 03/10/2014 12:47 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> nsd4 is trying to be too smart and thus when a 'reload' or even a 
> 'restart' is issued the database is not being rebuild properly when
> one uses includes.
> 
> It seems (I did for once not read the code ;) that nsd checks the 
> filetime of the files as configured in a 'zone' statement, and
> based on the changetime of that file it then decided to rebuild the
> zone or not.
> 
> Hence, if the primary file is not changed, but an included file
> has changed, the zone will not be rebuild.
> 
> Quick work-around: touch *, and then a nsd-control reload
> 
> It would great if the rebuilding logic would either always rebuild
> zones that contain includes, or possibly better, keep a 'include'
> list and then based on the actual files did a rebuild or not.

Thank you for the description, that is certainly a feature that looks
like a good idea.  Not sure if we can keep track of the included-files
in memory, but perhaps we can do that in a simple manner.

Best regards,
   Wouter

> I am not sure if it does that now or if it is possinle, but having
> a per-file 'compiled' version could work here too, then if there is
> a small include and another big include, only the small one will
> be reparsed/compiled while the big non-changed one does not have to
> be handled.
> 
> Greets, Jeroen _______________________________________________ 
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