secondary zone removing

[Cricket Liu]

> I've two questions :
> 
> when I delete a dns domain on my primary server, should I restart (stop
> then start) the bind server in order to make the server  to not answer
> to this deleted domain. In fact, is restarting  server cleaning the
> cache ??

You don't need to restart newer BIND servers to get them to
recognize the deletion; a reload is sufficient.  With brand-new
BIND 8.2+ name servers, you can even do an "ndc reconfig"
to tell it just to check named.conf for added or deleted zones.

> my second problem is that:
> When I remove a secondary zone entry in named.conf, should this zone be
> deleted automatically on the disk by a reload or a restart of named ?

No.  If you want to delete the backup zone data file, you'll need
to do it yourself.

cricket

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