BIND 9 - force secondary to update/refresh from primary

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> On 08/05/2008 04:13 PM, atomic at people.net.au wrote:
> > We will be upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9 on Windows 2000 Server, the 
> > plan is to upgrade the secondary name server first and do the primary 
> > later (not on the same day).
> > 
> > After upgrading the secondary, we want to make sure zone transfer from 
> > the primary (BIND 8) still works, so we will be making changes to a test 
> > zone in the primary name server (i.e. incrementing the serial number). 
> > Instead of waiting for it to happen, is it possible to force the 
> > secondary to update/refresh the zone without using rndc?

On 05.08.08 16:51, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:
> Remove the stored zonefiles from secondary's disk, so it will be forced 
> to re-transfer the next time it starts..

Oh, sorry.

rm <zonefile>
killall -1 named

should work, although rndc is more effective.
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