forcing a NS to update?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a805so$6j1 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
>Lord Skeptic wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to remotely force a NS to update its MX records for a domain?
>
>a) Call up the administrator and have them restart/reload.
>
>b) Fire up rndc, pointing it at the relevant nameserver, and issue the "reload"
>command (requires that the remote nameserver be running BIND 9, and that it be
>configured with an appropriate rndc key).

I think you mean "restart".  "Reload" doesn't do anything to the cache, it
only updates authoritative zones.

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