restarting BIND 8

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> writes:

    Jeff> If a restart is done, are there any options in named.conf
    Jeff> that do not get picked up as part of the restart (say,
    Jeff> forward first to forward only changes)?

No. Of course not. What could possibly give you the idea that it might
be anything but that? Think about this. Why would the authors of BIND
go out of their way to make the server behave differently by
selectively ignoring parts of the conf file on a restart? The man page
for ndc -- BTW you should be using rndc and BIND9 -- says that a new
process is created on a restart. When the server is restarted, the
current named process gets terminated and a new one is created. The
new named process reads named.conf and does what that tells it to do.