[BlueOnyx:24056] Re: DNS servers not syncing.

[Michael Aronoff]

Colin wrote:
> What I meant was I can cat db.domain.com in /etc/named/named and get a text 
> output that I can read (so for example can check the serial no. on the secondary.)
>
> Can't do that on 5209R or 5210R ... :-/
>
> Just tried on 5210R and get the same as 5209R which is not easily readable.

I think you are simply in the wrong directory. On 5209R and 5210R named is chrooted. That means the directory is /var/named/chroot/var/named/ 

So cat /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.anydomain.com outputs perfectly readable text.

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