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If you want to remove all the cached zone files from the secondary
Re: Is there a way to force an update?
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
Time: 3:46:23 am
server, they're stored in the folder Secondary Data, which resides in
the QuickDNS Data folder on the secondary server.
However, there's rarely a need to touch the contents of this folder,
as QuickDNS will update the files automatically immediately after
restarting (and periodically, depending on the zone's SOA record).
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
At 10:54 AM +0100 12/19/00, Matthias Gruber wrote:
>hello,
>
>with bind the quickest way was deleting the secondarys db. files and
>performing a kill -HUP. this forces the secondary to reload every
>secondary zone file. i think this was mentioned in the dns and bind
>book. is there a way to do have a similar behavior with qdns?
>(deleting the secondary files?) usually i increased the serial
>number on the primary and restarted the secondary qdns (not the
>machine). this seems to update the secondary immediately.
>
>
>>At 1:49 PM +0100 12/18/00, Webmaster wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>I want to know if there is a way to force the secondaries to read the
>>>changes in the primary NOW!!, if the secondaries are in another place
>>>(office, country, etc...)
>>
>>Only if you have some way to remotely restart either the DNS server
>>software or the machine itself.
>>
>>>And more, is there a trick to force the root servers to update the
>>>information more quickly?
>>
>>Not that I'm aware of.
>
>i would guess this is not necessary, because the root servers give
>only nonrecursive answers.
>
>
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
>
>--
>bye,
>
> Matthias Gruber
>
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