Came across an interesting problem after our F5 BigIP-VEs were victim to a storage failure in VMWare. Certain zones couldn’t be modified or in some cases even viewed in ZoneRunner. Since F5 doesn’t officially support its BIND backend, I knew I was likely on my own for a fix and began poking around /var/named/config/namedb were the files are stored.
[admin@f5bigip01:Active:In Sync] ~ # cd /var/named/config/namedb/ [admin@f5bigip01:Active:In Sync] namedb # ls -ls db.internal.32.30.10.in-addr.arpa.* 4 -rw-r--r--. 1 named named 977 2017-08-21 12:53 db.internal.32.30.10.in-addr.arpa. 4 -rw-r--r--. 1 named named 861 2017-08-19 12:06 db.internal.32.30.10.in-addr.arpa.~ 12 -rw-r--r--. 1 named named 11302 2017-08-19 11:55 db.internal.32.30.10.in-addr.arpa..jnl
Took a guess that it’s the .jnl file that’s the problem. So I decided to halt BIND, delete the file, and try again…
[admin@f5bigip01:Active:In Sync] ~ # bigstart stop zrd [admin@f5bigip01:Active:In Sync] ~ # rm -f *..jnl [admin@f5bigip01:zrd DOWN:In Sync] ~ # bigstart start zrd
Went back to ZoneRunner and was able to view and edit the zone just fine.