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Using Bind9 i wish to be able to update both zones and the records of the zones without interrupting the service, as in restarting.

I've used nsupdate to control the records but now I'm looking into the zones.

rndc got functionality to add zones but it breaks nsupdate as i've understood due to fileformat so it might not be an option. It does however offer the 'reconfig' option that updates new or deleted zones without restarting bind. So i'm thinking about writing a custom service that writes the zone information to the named.conf and then the template file in /zones/ with the records. Then it runs rndc reconfigure to update the zone and finally i can use nsupdate to change/update the records.

How does this solution sound, are there any better ways of doing this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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use 

rndc reload zone.com

Using zone as your domain So like if you had the following

zone "zone.com" { }

If you add a new zone a simple

rndc reload

Should gracefully load/delete a zone from the server also

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  • Right so use that method instead of reconfigure? After using a script to add the actual data to named.conf and a template to /zones/ ? Do my other steps sound reasonable? I'm just thinking of security, i want to be able to control the DNS from a custom admin panel.
    – Derek Schröder
    Jun 2, 2013 at 13:46
  • if you add/delete a whole zone.. just use reload.. if you edit a zone use reload with the zonename after it. I do all our changes from puppet and that's how we gracefully handle changes with no downtime
    – Mike
    Jun 3, 2013 at 3:48

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