Category: Other

This is a note for my future reference.

Example error:

zone example.com/IN: journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone
zone example.com/IN: not loaded due to errors.

While named isn’t running, remove the .jnl file for the example.com zone. It will be in the same directory as the zone files. Restart named and the error should be gone.

This error occurs if you have dynamic entries (say pushed by in by a DHCP server or other automatic mechanism) in a zone and then also change the zone files on disk (say deploying updates from a manual edit).

To prevent this in the future, freeze a zone before changing the zone file, then thaw after.

rndc freeze example.com
vi /path/to/zonefile/example.com
rndc reload example.com
rndc thaw sxample.com

Where I learned about this: thedumbterminal.co.uk

In January, Google said:

“With the launch of CardDAV, it’s now possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols (IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV) for Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts. We’ll start rolling out this change as planned across all platforms.” (citation)

Yesterday, Google said they would be moving CalDAV support to whitelisted only on September 16, 2013, and that new developers should use their propriatary API (citation).

Removing an entire service, like Google Reader is fair enough, but open standards access, like CalDAV, from products that are used by default with most new phone and tablets sold is low.

Removing Google Reader made me glad I never switched to it. Removing CalDAV support makes me want to renew my efforts not to use Google services beyond search.

Does anyone know if aCal is still read only?

I got sick of Java updates on Windows trying to trick me into installing McAfee or the Ask toolbar, so I went searching for a solution.  I found a different build of Java from Oracle that solves the issue.

Go to this page: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Click on the top Download button in the JRE column.

Accept the License Agreement, then choice to download Windows x86 Offline.

This can then be installed and it will not try to get you to install crapware. It can even be installed from the command line without requiring any further user interaction (see: http://java.com/en/download/help/silent_install.xml).