how to start or restart your dnsserver from shell.
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 8:01 pm
BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. Use the following commands as per your Linux distro: first login as root from the shell than use this commands
[a] service service-name command.
/etc/init.d/service-name script command.
[c] rndc command - Name server control utility.
CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux
Type the following command to start BIND server:
# service named start
Type the following command to stop BIND server:
# service named stop
Type the following command to restart BIND server:
# service named restart
Type the following command to reload BIND server to reload zone file or config file changes:
# service named reload
Type the following command to see the current status of BIND server:
# service named status
You can also use the following syntax too:
/etc/init.d/named start
/etc/init.d/named stop
/etc/init.d/named restart
Debian / Ubuntu Linux
Type the following command to start BIND server:
# service bind9 start
Type the following command to stop BIND server:
# service bind9 stop
Type the following command to restart BIND server:
# service bind9 restart
Type the following command to reload BIND server to reload zone file or config file changes:
# service bind9 reload
Type the following command to see the current status of BIND server:
# service bind9 status