Local DNS lookup fails with "journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone"

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
named 9.6

Situation

Resolving a local domain name to an IP address fails with:

> 192.168.1.3
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

3.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa      name = server.domain.site.
> server.domain.site
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find server.domain.site.: SERVFAIL

In /var/log/messages the following errors can be observed:

Oct 28 15:41:13 kl1 named[17558]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
Oct 28 15:41:13 kl1 named[17558]: zone domain.site/IN: journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone
Oct 28 15:41:13 kl1 named[17558]: zone domain.site/IN: not loaded due to errors.
Oct 28 15:41:13 kl1 named[17558]: running

Resolving any public resource works as expected.

Resolution

This issue may get experienced if the binary zone journal gets corrupted. To solve this issue:

rcnamed stop
locate and delete the *jnl files for the corresponding zone files in /var/lib/named or its subdirectories
rcnamed start

Additional Information

For detailed information on the purpose of the journal file please see the named manual http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/cur/9.6/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.ch04.html#journal

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