How to refresh bind-9.13 daemon

Will Yardley william+dns at hq.newdream.net
Mon Sep 24 07:07:37 UTC 2001


Bind Users wrote:

> Currently, I faced some difficulty to refresh my Bind-9.13 daemon.
> Previously, in bind 8 I used "kill -HUP <named.pid>" to make any
> modification take effect immedieatly; but not in Bind-9.13.

use rndc.  rndc reload is basically equivelant to a SIGHUP.  read the
rndc man page for more info on rndc's various options.

last time i checked sending bind 9 a SIGHUP did still work, although i
know you're not really supposed to do it.

w

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