"ndc reconfig" vs "ndc reload"

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Feb 1 15:28:51 UTC 2000


In article <Ljrl4.6430$4f5.1566211 at tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
Chris Adams <cmadams at fly.hiwaay.net> wrote:
>Can someone explain the difference between "ndc reconfig" and "ndc
>reload"?  If I have a script that signals BIND after making changes to
>zones and/or config files, should I do "ndc reconfig" followed by "ndc
>reload"?  This is with bind 8.2.2-P5.

"ndc reconfig" only reads the config file.  It will add and delete whole
zones based on changes there, but it won't go looking for updated zone
files.  "ndc reload" does everything "ndc reconfig" does, and also looks
for zone files that have been modified since the last time they were
loaded.

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