Restarting bind remotly

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Nov 5 19:16:39 UTC 2003


Dickon Newman wrote:

>Dear List,
>I've tried searching online for a resolution to save having to bug you.  However, I haven't had much luck.
>
>I have 4 primary DNS servers in various locations.  They are FreeBSD based with Bind 8.3.6.
>
>What I want to be able to do is make dns changes on one box, then run a script to make the changes active on all 4 boxes.
>
>I WAS using rsync to copy this files, which is no problem.  But I don't know the best way to restart named.  I WAS stopping, and then restarting the process.  I don't want to do this anymore.
>
>Can anyone please offer some insight on what I should do?
>
Why do you need to do a full restart? Generally "reload <zone>" for each 
changed zone is sufficient. You can do that remotely by upgrading to 
BIND 9 and using the "rndc" utility.

                                                                         
                                          - Kevin




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