Todd Snyder wrote: > Good day to all, > > I work in a highly change controlled environment, and one of the things > that flags a change as no-go is having to restart named due to the risk > of taking down a functional server due to a misconfig. > > We have mitigated this to some extent by using rndc reloads to load new > zone info, allowing for lower risk changes to zones. However, adding > new zones is still considered high risk, as a restart of the daemon is > required. Additionally, we lose the cache, which could negatively > impact service. > > So my question is this - is it possible to add a new zone to a currently > running server and have it load? If there are named.conf/zonefile > typos, will that impact any currently running zones? I suspect that > rndc recofig may do what I want, however finding definitive information > about exactly what is going on, and what the risks are, is diffcult. > The googles are failing me today, or my google fu is weak. > > They key features I need are that existing functional zones couldn't be > impacted, and the cache isn't lost. > > The googles do nothing.
Don't you have a test environment? rndc reconfig, possibly followed up with selective rndc reload's, should get you what you want. - Kevin
