Hi, Occasionally I need to add hosts manually to forward/reverse lookup zones in BIND 9.16. We also have ISC DHCP. Both are on a Mac Mini using MacPorts to install.
Since dynamic updates are continually in progress, I understand I need to use *rndc** freeze zone* and *rndc** thaw zone* before and after making changes (including manually incrementing the sequence number). Can I safely accomplish the same thing by issuing an *rndc stop* command? Would that allow me to make zone changes followed by an *rndc reload* command? Also, is it safe to simply reboot the server after OS updates, or is it necessary to manually stop the DNS server first? Does it matter where in the dynamically updated zone files I insert the new host A record and PTR record? With /etc/hosts I can add hosts on different subnets. To do that in DNS, do I first need to add a reverse zone for the additional subnet so that I can add PTR records to correspond to A records in the forward zone? Thanks for any light you can shed on this subject. -- Frank Kyosho Fallon My pronouns are: He, HIm
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