At 08:09 AM 1/9/00 -0500, Chris Ulrich wrote:
>Sorry to be BIND ignorant...
>
>Can someone tell me... Does BIND use one large text file for all
>zones, or do you create a separate text file for each zone?
Each domain has it's own zone file. Each reverse file is seperate also.
>If I add zones, do I have to "restart" the Bind server (as with MS DNS
>which has a
>menu option to update for the changes) or are they picked up automatically?
All updates are performed manually, not through a console. When you're
done updating, you open the console and click "Reload database". When the
server is started, or the database is reloaded, it looks for files based on
what's listed in named.boot
If we're to continue this discussion, it would be appropriate to move it to
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