[knot-dns-users] Knot serving old zone version

Hello all, We had a weird issue with Knot serving an old version of a zone after a server reboot. After the reboot, our monitoring alerted that the zone was out of sync. Knot was then serving an older version of the zone (the zone did not update during the reboot, Knot was serving a version of the zone that was older than what it had before the reboot). The zone file on the disk had the correct serial, and knotc zone-status <zone> showed the current serial as well. However, dig @localhost soa <zone> on that box, showed the old serial. Running knotc zone-refresh <zone> didn't help, as in the logs when it went to do the refresh, it showed 'zone is up-to-date'. Running knotc zone-retransfer also did not resolve the problem, only a restart of the knotd process resolved this issue. While we were able to resolve this ourselves, it is certainly a strange issue and we were wondering if we could get any input on this. Command output: [root@ns02 ~]# knotc knotc> zone-status <zone> [<zone>] role: slave | serial: 2017121812 | transaction: none | freeze: no | refresh: +3h59m42s | update: not scheduled | expiration: +6D23h59m42s | journal flush: not scheduled | notify: not scheduled | DNSSEC re-sign: not scheduled | NSEC3 resalt: not scheduled | parent DS query: not scheduled knotc> exit [root@ns02 ~]# dig @localhost soa <zone> … … 2017090416 … … Logs after retransfer and refresh: Jan 15 16:49:22 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] control, received command 'zone-refresh' Jan 15 16:49:22 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:49:23 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:49:23 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:49:23 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] control, received command 'zone-retransfer' Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] AXFR, incoming, <master>@53: starting Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] AXFR, incoming, <master>@53: finished, 0.00 seconds, 1 messages, 5119 bytes Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: zone updated, serial none -> 2017121812 Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:52:45 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] refresh, outgoing, <master>@53: remote serial 2017121812, zone is up-to-date Jan 15 16:53:03 ns02 knot[7187]: info: [<zone>] control, received command 'zone-status' And a dig after that: [root@ns02 ~]# dig @localhost soa crnet.cr … … 2017090416 … … -Rob