Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Matthew Marshall]

Danny Mayer wrote:

>At 09:34 AM 7/13/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
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>
>>>At 09:37 PM 7/12/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>We are having a major problem with our bind 9 server. When restarting our
>>>>server it can take hours for it to load all the zones
>>>>and start answering queries. We have discovered that killing the named
>>>>processes, and restarting it will eventually result in a fast
>>>>load of all zones (less then 1 second). However, sometimes we only need
>>>>to
>>>>kill and restart 2 or 3 times, while 40 or 500 times other times.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Why exactly are you restarting? Does rndc reload and rndc reconfig not
>>>work
>>>for you?
>>>
>>>Danny
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Danny,
>>
>>No rndc does not reload the zone, for some reason we have to stop the
>>named process and start it again. It's very strange.
>>    
>>
>
>Did you try
>rndc reload zonename
>
>Danny
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>

Also, if you are using views, you will have to specify the view in where 
the zone resides:
for the "internal" view:
rndc reload zonename in internal

--Matt