Restarting bind remotly

[Dickon Newman]

Well...we host many zones (please forgive my newb-ness)...wouldn't this be a
pain to have a script recognize which zone had changed and initiate a zone
change for that particular zone?

Please keep in mind that I want to make this as simple as possible for my
co-workers who make quite a few dns changes each day.

Dickon...

----- 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


> Dickon Newman wrote:
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> >Dear List,
> >I've tried searching online for a resolution to save having to bug you.
However, I haven't had much luck.
> >
> >I have 4 primary DNS servers in various locations.  They are FreeBSD
based with Bind 8.3.6.
> >
> >What I want to be able to do is make dns changes on one box, then run a
script to make the changes active on all 4 boxes.
> >
> >I WAS using rsync to copy this files, which is no problem.  But I don't
know the best way to restart named.  I WAS stopping, and then restarting the
process.  I don't want to do this anymore.
> >
> >Can anyone please offer some insight on what I should do?
> >
> 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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