From: Jari Fredriksson on

When I command "rndc reload", this will be written to daemon.log

Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: received control channel command
'reload'
Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: loading configuration from
'/etc/bind/named.conf'
Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: using default UDP/IPv4 port
range: [1024, 65535]
Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: using default UDP/IPv6 port
range: [1024, 65535]
Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: reloading configuration succeeded
Apr 1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: reloading zones succeeded

All seems good. But no, if I have changed, or modified the zone records,
for example added or removed an address, the changes do not show!

Using Debian Lenny, BIND 9.6.1-P3

I tried to google, but could not find a suitable solution.

The new configuration comes alive if I do a restart for bind, but that
reload does not make it.

The configuration files are as follows:

/etc/bind/named.conf
|
/etc/bind/named.conf.local
|
/etc/bind/myzone.hosts

I think this is how it is supposed to be in Debian.

So.
1. I change a zone file
2. I add one to serial in the zone file
3. I command "rndc reload"
4. rndc connects to named, and all seems good
5. changes do not show up :(

Any ideas?

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From: David Parker on
----- Original Message -----
From: Jari Fredriksson <jarif(a)iki.fi>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:24 pm
Subject: bind9 rndc reload problem
To: Debian Users list <debian-user(a)lists.debian.org>

>
> When I command "rndc reload", this will be written to daemon.log
>
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: received control
> channel command
> 'reload'
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: loading
> configuration from
> '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: using default
> UDP/IPv4 port
> range: [1024, 65535]
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: using default
> UDP/IPv6 port
> range: [1024, 65535]
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: reloading
> configuration succeeded
> Apr  1 04:13:17 spitfire named[19287]: reloading zones succeeded
>
> All seems good. But no, if I have changed, or modified the zone
> records,for example added or removed an address, the changes do
> not show!
>
> Using Debian Lenny, BIND 9.6.1-P3
>
> I tried to google, but could not find a suitable solution.
>
> The new configuration comes alive if I do a restart for bind,
> but that
> reload does not make it.
>
> The configuration files are as follows:
>
> /etc/bind/named.conf
>     |
>     /etc/bind/named.conf.local
>          |
>         
> /etc/bind/myzone.hosts
> I think this is how it is supposed to be in Debian.
>
> So.
> 1. I change a zone file
> 2. I add one to serial in the zone file
> 3. I command "rndc reload"
> 4. rndc connects to named, and all seems good
> 5. changes do not show up :(
>
> Any ideas?
>

Hello,

Are you changing the serial number in the zone file?  Generally, a good way to create the serial number is to use the format of:

YYYYMMDDNN

Where:

Y = Year
M = Month
D = Day
N = revision number starting at 00

So if you edit the file on March 31, 2010, you would make the serial number 2010033100.  If you edit it again on the same day, you would just increment the last digit.  You should update the serial number in any zone file you edit before running "rndc reload".

    - Dave