Where to locate the synced DNS zones from the Master DNS?

Question

Where to locate the synced DNS zones from the Master DNS server?

Answer

The location of the DNS zone files depends on the Slave DNS server configuration and OS: the DNS zone files may be stored either in ordinary text files or in a database file.

For example:

• On RedHat/CentOS: if it's installed the bind-chroot package on the Slave DNS server, the BIND service will run in the /var/named/chroot environment and all configuration files will be there. As such, zone files can be found in /var/named/chroot/var/named path.

• On Debian/Ubuntu: If it's installed the bind9 package on the Slave DNS server, the BIND service will create database files in /var/cache/bind folder path. For example, to retireve the DNS zone from domain example.com and store its output in the file example.com.txt:

  # named-compilezone -f raw -F text -o example.com.txt example.com /var/cache/bind/example.com
  # cat example.com.txt