rndc - sync before reload?

[Alan Clegg]

On 7/14/19 8:00 PM, John W. Blue wrote:
> Please elaborate on the technical reason why instead of being terse.

I'll give a short version:

"rndc reload" existed from the early days of BIND with the first notice
in CHANGES being [bug] 287 in 9.1.0b1.

"rndc sync" came along with [func] 3084 in BIND 9.9.0a1.

You don't need to sync before you reload.

As to the internals, I dunno.

AlanC