Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 3 85
Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
Configuring a Primary Master Name Server
Examples of these records are shown in “The Primary Master
Server’s db.domain Files” on page 79 and “The Primary Master
Server’s db.net Files” on page 82.
2. After modifying the domain data files, issue the following command to
restart the name server and force it to reload its databases:
/usr/sbin/sig_named restart
To Delete a Host from the Domain Data Files
1. Delete the host from /etc/hosts and run hosts_to_named again.
or
Delete the host manually, as follows:
• Edit db.[domain]. Delete all A, CNAME, HINFO, WKS, and MX
resource records associated with the host. Increment the serial
number in the SOA resource record.
• Edit db.[net]. Delete all PTR resource records for the host.
Increment the serial number in the SOA resource record.
2. After modifying the domain data files, issue the following command to
restart the name server and force it to reload its databases:
/usr/sbin/sig_named restart