[geeks] DNS setup, Quick question

Kurt Huhn kurthuhn at k-huhn.com
Wed Feb 20 12:00:39 CST 2002


> > If I change a couple IP addresses that a record points to in a
> > db.foo-bar.com file, do I then incriment the serial number?
> Yes. To indicate a change is the purpose of the serial.
>
> > Then, do I need
> > to do something with named to get it to recognize the change?
> Restart it. (kill / start or kill -HUP ...)

Or us DJBDNS, which requires neither serial incrementing (does it for you)
or kill -HUP'ing (just run make).

Since switching to DJBDNS, I've become quite spoiled...

Kurt



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