Re: rndc

In article <bb5e9g$1lku$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Dev Chat <dev_chat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>After going throught the plethora of documentation on BIND 9.2.2, I am
>still unsure of this one bit. Is it necessary to kill/restart named
>everytime I make a change to a zone file? Or would rndc reload
>suffice?

It hasn't been necessary to restart named to pick up zone file changes for
over a decade.  That's what "rndc reload" is for (and in BIND 4 days, "kill
-HUP <namedPID>" did it).

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