Is it possible to dynamically add new zone in bind 8.2.1?

[G. Liu]

Thanks for the response.

What's the difference between "ndc reload" and send SIGHUP signal to named?
Both of them are reloading zones. After I sent SIGHUP to named, will named
continue to respond to DNS query before reloading is completed?

I'm running BIND 8.2.1, I can't find the paraameter "reconfig", and no
"reconfig" is mentioned in the manual.
Following is the result after I run ndc:

[root@]# ndc reconfig
Unrecognized command "reconfig" (args "")

[root@]# ndc
Type   help  -or-   /h   if you need help.
ndc> help
getpid
status
stop
exec
reload
dumpdb
stats
trace
notrace
querylog
qrylog
help
quit
     
Thank you very much!

Liu

> G. Liu <gliu at interland.net> wrote:
> >Is it possible to add new zones without re-start bind (dynamically add
> >new zones and new zone take effect immediately, just as adding a new host
> >in an existing zone)?
> 
> "ndc reload" re-reads named.conf and loads in any new or changed zones.
> Since BIND 8 it has been much faster than "ndc restart", because it does
> this in the background and allows named to continue responding while it's
> working.
> 
> "ndc reconfig", which another poster mentioned, is similar, but just loads
> in new zones, it doesn't look for changed zone files.
> 
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