reboot required for changes to take effect in DirectAdmin

Question

recently I have this problem that whenever I add a user in DirectAdmin's panel, nothing loads up until I reboot the server.
It seems the problem is with the local dns server `cause when I use intoDNS many of the fields have invalid values.
I'm wondering what could cause that to happen?

Answer 1

Well, I'm not sure where the problem might be, but rebooting the server doesn't seem to be a wise choice. Try first to reload (or restart) the named service:

service named restart

By doing that you can be sure that it's a DNS-related issue. Then you should look into /var/log/messages to search for errors on named service or other issues. Also, you might want to check Directadmin's log files: /var/log/directadmin/error.log and /var/log/directadmin/errortaskd.log