On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 04:45:29PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:13:21AM -0500, Peter Green wrote:
> > When a new zone is added to the named server, it needs to be restarted to
> > actually read that zone file.
>
> This is NOT true. We manage a few thousand domains and the bind process
> has typical uptime of 2-3 month. If we had to restart our binds for every
> domain we add we'd do nothing else.
> Just add it to the named.conf file and reload.
In fact, bind 8.2 has the ability to do a reload on *individual* zones. Just
type "ndc reload <zone>".
--Adam
