restarting BIND 8

Jeff Stevens jstevens at vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 13 16:11:42 UTC 2004


On 5/12/2004 5:06 PM, Jim Reid wrote:
>>>>>>"Jeff" == Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 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.

It's because when I turn on debugging sometimes, I'm not sure if I get 
it all unless I stop/restart.  Attempting to understand how all the 
debug info works was rather complex...I didn't always see the incoming 
queries if I flipped on query tracing.

-- 
Jeffrey Stevens


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