Restarting bind remotly

[Kevin Darcy]

BIND 8's "ndc" command supports "reload" and "reload <zone>". Unlike 
"rndc", you can't run it directly from another box, but there's always 
ssh...

Or, as I suggested before, just use a standard master/slave arrangement 
(optionally supplemented with "also-notify" if you need faster 
propagation of changes).

                                                                         
                                             - Kevin

Dickon Newman wrote:

>What's the best solution if we assume that I am restricted to using BIND
>version 8.3.6?
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
>To: <bind-users at isc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Restarting bind remotly
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>>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?
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>>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?
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>>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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>>>Well...we host many zones (please forgive my newb-ness)...wouldn't this
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>>>Please keep in mind that I want to make this as simple as possible for my
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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
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>>>>>I have 4 primary DNS servers in various locations.  They are FreeBSD
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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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>>>>>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
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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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