[NCLUG] Re: [Cedarlug] zone transfers

Gary Rogers garyr at dmin.net
Fri Aug 10 20:02:48 MDT 2001


At the command prompt as root (or another use that can access the ndc
daemon)

Actually if you're dealing with a BIND server with many Zones on it you'll
want to do ndc reload [zone]. Just ndc reload causes all zones to be
re-loaded. Check ndc /help at the command line.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Staver" <staver at fimble.com>
To: "Cedar LUG" <cedarlug at cedarlug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Cedarlug] zone transfers


> Ok, thanks... I'm still unsure of where to type 'ndc reload' though...
>
> Colin Burnett wrote:
> >
> > > Where do I change how long it takes the slave dns servers to update
from
> > > the master?  It seems to take my servers hours to notice the serial
has
> > > been incremented for a zone file, and then they finally transfer the
> > > file once the file expires.  Is there a way to speed this up?
> >
> > >From what I've noticed, when you do a `ndc reload` (assuming BIND) the
> > slave servers download the new zone file "immediately."  Check your
> > messages log file as the zone downloads should be noted.  I know there
is
> > a directive for not sending updates (typically used for 127.*, 10.*,
etc.
> > nets).  Also check the times in your SOA.
> >
> > Colin Burnett
> >
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