Long Startup times and Directory Structure

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Phil" == Daws, Phil <PDaws at eaeurope.com> writes:

    Phil> How does the reconfig work? Does it scan the conf in memory
    Phil> against config file? What about reloading each zone
    Phil> individually?

A reconfig gets the name server to re-read named.conf if the file has
changed since the last time it was read. Anything that follows from
those changes - like the addition or removal of a zone - is carried
out. Reloading individual zones is a big win, especially on servers
with lots of zones. This won't work if the zone's been newly added.
The name server won't see the new zone{} statement until it has been
reconfig'ed or restarted or globally reloaded (=> named.conf has been
parsed again). As far as the name server is concerned, the new zone
doesn't exist until its zone{} statement has been read from named.conf
and the zone was successfully loaded.