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.
> During the time that it is down and restarting
> (usually about 15-30 seconds), some qmail errors may get generated. In our
> /var/log/maillog:
You only have *one* DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf on your machine? Why?
Add two others and your problems should be gone.
\Maex
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