Hi Max,

I've updated the wiki now to mention the "rndc reload" command and updating your zone files if you use bind - the wiki login is just your usual bitfolk username.

https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Renumbering_for_customers#Reconfiguring_services

I suspect most people will of just rebooted the box (or restarted all the bind services) if they were having issues with DNS, which would have forced a read of the updated zone file.

Ewan

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Max B <txtmax@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Andy,

your view of 'renumbering for clients' and mine differ. The way I look at it, any issues that force me to deal this change are directly relevant to 'renumbering for clients'. I am surprised you appear to disagree.

Am I a client or not? This is a serious question, although it may appear to be flippant.

If Michael's discovery of a 'rndc reload' command does not fall under '6 Reconfiguring services', I don't know what does. Apparently, neither does anyone else, given the lack of contributions to this section.

'rndc reload' is a misnomer; traditionally, under system V unix naming conventions, 'bind' would restarted by an /etc/init.d script, either 'bind' or a catchall like 'networking'. 'rndc reload' is odd enough to deserve a comment on 'renumbering for clients'.

Cheers,
Max

--- On Mon, 2/6/12, Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:

From: Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com>
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] IMPORTANT: You need to renumber the IP address(es) of your BitFolk VPS
To: users@lists.bitfolk.com

Received: Monday, February 6, 2012, 12:24 AM

Hi Max,

I'm afraid I don't really know what you mean about Michael's bind
discoveries. All I can recall from that thread is that he found that
he had forgotten to reload his nameserver after making changes to a
zone file. That isn't really related to renumbering a VPS so I don't
think it belongs on the renumbering article.

Cheers,
Andy

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Max B wrote:
>
> Yes, Andy, thanks for the pointer.
>
> I would have liked to update '6 Reconfiguring services' to point to a new page in order to summarise the 'bind' discoveries of Michael Corliss*. Unfortunately I am unable because I lack information about my 'login name' and 'password', if ever I had one.
>
> *I am surprised his discoveries hadn't been included already. Does nobody besides us use bind??

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