Restarting bind remotly

[Kevin Darcy]

If you have many zones, then that's an even *stronger* reason to avoid 
full reloads -- do you really want your nameserver tied up reloading 
unchanged zones?

I would expect that your master knows which zones have changed and which 
have not, so why not have it issue the "rndc reload <zone>"s right after 
the rsync?

Or, even better, why not just use regular, DNS-standards-defined zone 
transfers? rsync isn't necessarily the best solution for  *every* 
data-propagation requirement...

                                                                         
                                                - Kevin

Dickon Newman wrote:

>Well...we host many zones (please forgive my newb-ness)...wouldn't this be a
>pain to have a script recognize which zone had changed and initiate a zone
>change for that particular zone?
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>Please keep in mind that I want to make this as simple as possible for my
>co-workers who make quite a few dns changes each day.
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>Dickon...
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
>To: <bind-users at isc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:16 PM
>Subject: Re: Restarting bind remotly
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>>>Dear List,
>>>I've tried searching online for a resolution to save having to bug you..
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>However, I haven't had much luck.
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>>>I have 4 primary DNS servers in various locations.  They are FreeBSD
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>based with Bind 8.3.6.
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>>>What I want to be able to do is make dns changes on one box, then run a
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>script to make the changes active on all 4 boxes.
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>>>I WAS using rsync to copy this files, which is no problem.  But I don't
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>know the best way to restart named.  I WAS stopping, and then restarting the
>process.  I don't want to do this anymore.
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>>>Can anyone please offer some insight on what I should do?
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>>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.
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