Slave reload not seeing new zones

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Mar 28 17:42:34 UTC 2002


At 12:40 AM 3/28/02, Danny Mayer wrote:

>At 09:34 AM 3/27/02, Mike Nice wrote:
>
> >Using Bind 8.31 on Windows 2K, I issue a bindcmd reload and NAMED logs
> >that it is restarting, so I know it got the signal.   However, it
> >failed to detect 2 new slave zones in the named.conf file.  I had to
> >stop and restart the service before it recognized the new zones.
> >
> >    Are there any known conditions where a reload fails to recognize
> >new zones in the conf file?
> >
> >    Thanks,
>
>You will need to stop and start BIND to load the new zones. reconfig was
>not implemented in BINDCmd (or BINDCtrl). reload does not check for new
>zones.


To correct my own error.  reload SHOULD load the new zones if they are in
named.conf.  It works the same way as on Unix.

         Danny



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