[buug] reload dns

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Thu Apr 11 22:03:16 PDT 2002


Van> I reconfigured my dns and would like to force the box to use it
Van> instead of the old dns.  I would like to do so without rebooting.
Van> Will taking down the interface with ifconfig and then bringing it
Van> back up do the trick, or is there another/better way?

No, restart named.  On debian:

~# /etc/init.d/bind force-reload
Stopping domain name service: named.
Starting domain name service: named.
~#

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