Restarting bind remotly

Dickon Newman dnewman at skylan.net
Wed Nov 5 20:18:41 UTC 2003


What's the best solution if we assume that I am restricted to using BIND
version 8.3.6?

Dickon...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Restarting bind remotly


> 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...
>
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>                                                 - Kevin
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> Dickon Newman wrote:
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> >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?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Dickon...
> >
> >----- 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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> >
> >>Dickon Newman wrote:
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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.
> >
> >
> >>>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.
> >>
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> >>                                          - Kevin
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