ISC Bind

Config

Check Config

No output is good output ;)

named-checkconf /etc/named.conf

Zones

Reload All Zones From Config

rndc reload

Reload A Specific Zone

rndc reload [zonename]

Check A Zone's Status

rndc zonestatus [zonename]

Remove A Zone From Service

(just unloads zone from memory; doesn't delete the zone from config)

rndc delzone [zonename]

Add A Zone

• (zone must have been loaded from config already)*

rndc addzone [zonename]

Cache

Flush cache of a domain and all its subdomains

 rndc flushtree name [view]

Example:

 rndc flushtree website-to-flush.com internal

Flush cache of a domain

 rndc flushname name [view]

Example:

 rndc flushname website-to-flush.com internal