KB2919355 2012 R2 update crashes DNS servers which load zones from file

Question

I allowed KB2919355, the Windows Server 2012 R2 update 1, to install on a pair of standalone servers which run just DHCP and DNS for an isolated network. They are dedicated physical servers. Because they are not joined to an AD, they load their DNS zones
from file. As soon as KB2919355 is installed the DNS server service "terminates unexpectedly". It does this within seconds every time you try to start it. Only event 7034, "The DNS Server service terminated unexpectedly", is logged.
Uninstall KB2919355 and the DNS service returns to normal.
DNS.exe is replaced by the update: the previous version was 6.3.9600.16384; the update version is 6.3.9600.17042.
To see if this might be being caused by my zone files I then built a new Server 2012 R2 virtual machine, put all updates on it including KB2919355, and then added the DNS role. Sat there without any configuration changes from the default the DNS Server service
continued to run. Then I made the one change, to load zone data on start-up from file. I had not created any zones or made any other changes. The result was a DNS Server service which crashes and will not stay running for more than a few seconds. Change
back to the default "load from Active Directory and Registry" and the service runs normally again.
This looks horribly like a bug.

Answer 1

The zone data is stored in the zone file.
Neil has the right approach (IMHO) in loading the zone info from the registry.
The zone file itself has all of the zone records and can be transferred to DNS secondaries through either AXFR or IXFR zone transfers. If your secondaries are BIND DNS servers, remember to click the BIND compatibility check box in the properties dialog box.
The "load zone data" setting only controls the boot process of the DNS server and not the actual storage of the zone records.
Hope this helps!
Ed Gallagher