>Hi all. Especially you Len. :)
>I'm having a problem that when Bind can't connect to a slave, it throws a >Doc Watson error and stops. not enough memory, probably. I think named.exe spawns another copy of itself for each zone transfer. >I've got a monitoring program that restarts it. However, usually I can't >stop the service manually after that using either NET STOP or the control >panel. So when adding a new domain, I have to reboot the server. I'd >rather not do that every time I add a darned domain. Is there a command I >can use from the command line to get Bind to refresh and read the new zone >file? bindcmd.exe in BIND 8.2.4 causes named to reread the config + zone files. > Better yet, is there a way to force the service to stop? bindcmd.exe will do that, in normal circumstances. but if NET STOP doesn't, then I bet named is really screwed up. Need to run 8.2.4, it had some non-security bugs fixed. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
