[nsd-users] nsd as bind slave (xfer problem)

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Thomas Krause wrote:

> I'm a new nsd user. I want to replace a bind9 nameserver, which works as
> a (bind) slave. I converted the named.conf, started nsd and tested with
> zonecheck - everything seems okay.
> Now I want to add additional slave zones to the server. But this works
> only with stopping and starting the nsd process. None of the other
> nsdc commands starts the zone transfer from the master.
> What is wrong?
> I'm using nsd 3.2.1 (Debian 4.0 amd64)

that's right. Adding/removing zones only take effect after a complete
restart, not after a reload. I believe bind behaves similarly.

Paul