reload zone files without restart named

[Mark de Vries]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Danfeng Yao wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I want to know how to reload a zone file without stopping and
> restarting the named. I tried "rndc reload" and its variances, none of
> them refresh the zone data from the new zone file -- dig queries still
> return the old zone data even after TTL for the queried record expires.
> 	Any other alternatives? Thanks a lot.

rndc reload [zonename] should do the trick... Unless you forgot to update
the serial? Or if there is an error in the zonefile, you should see that
in your (sys)log.

Rgds,
Mark.