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57 .sh 1 "Domain Management"
59 This section contains information for starting, controlling and debugging
63 The hostname should be set to the full domain style name in
64 \fI/etc/rc.local\fP using \fIhostname\|(1)\fP. The following entry should
65 be added to \fI/etc/rc.local\fP to start up \fInamed\fP at system boot time:
67 \fIif [ -f /usr/sbin/named ]; then
68 /usr/sbin/named\fP [options] \fI& echo -n ' named' >/dev/console\fP
71 This usually directly follows the lines that start \fIsyslogd\fP.
72 \fBDo Not\fP attempt to run \fInamed\fP from \fIinetd\fP.
74 continuously restart the name server and defeat the purpose of the cache.
75 .sh 2 /var/run/named.pid
77 When \fInamed\fP is successfully started up it writes its process id into
78 the file \fI/var/run/named.pid\fP. This is useful to programs that want to
79 send signals to \fInamed\fP. The name of this file may be changed by defining
80 \fIPIDFILE\fP to the new name when compiling \fInamed\fP.
83 The \fIgethostbyname\|()\fP library call can detect if \fInamed\fP is running.
84 If it is determined that \fInamed\fP is not running it will look in
85 \fI/etc/hosts\fP to resolve an address.
86 This option was added to allow \fIifconfig\|(8C)\fP to configure the machines
87 local interfaces and to enable a system manager to access the network
88 while the system is in single user mode.
89 It is advisable to put the local machines interface addresses and a couple of
90 machine names and address in
91 \fI/etc/hosts\fP so the system manager can rcp files from another machine
92 when the system is in single user mode.
93 The format of \fI/etc/hosts\fP has not changed. See \fIhosts\|(5)\fP
95 Since the process of reading \fI/etc/hosts\fP is slow,
96 it is not advisable to use this option when the system is in multi user mode.
100 There are several signals that can be sent to the \fInamed\fP process
101 to have it do tasks without restarting the process.
105 Causes \fInamed\fP to read \fInamed.boot\fP and reload the database.
106 This is useful when you have made a change to a ``primary'' data file
107 and you want \fInamed\fP\|'s internal database to reflect the change.
108 If you build \s-1BIND\s+1 with the \s-1FORCED_RELOAD\s+1 option, then
109 \s-1SIGHUP\s+1 also has the effect of scheduling all ``secondary'' zones
110 for serial-number checks, which could lead to zone transfers ahead of
111 the usual schedule. Normally serial-number compares are done only at
112 the intervals specified in the zone's \s-1SOA\s+1 record.
115 When \fInamed\fP is running incorrectly, look first in
116 \fI/var/log/messages\fP and check for any messages logged by \fIsyslog\fP.
117 Next send it a signal to see what is happening. Unless you run it with the
118 ``-d'' option, \fInamed\fP has very little to say on its standard output or
119 standard error. Everything \fInamed\fP has to say, it says to \fIsyslog\fP.
122 Dumps the current data base and cache to
123 \fI/var/tmp/named_dump.db\fP
124 This should give you an indication to whether the data base was loaded
126 The name of the dump file may be changed
127 by defining \fIDUMPFILE\fP to the new name when compiling \fInamed\fP.
129 \fINote:\fP the following two signals only work when \fInamed\fP is built with
133 Turns on debugging. Each following SIGUSR1 increments the debug level.
134 The output goes to \fI/var/tmp/named.run\fP
135 The name of this debug file may be changed
136 by defining \fIDEBUGFILE\fP to the new name before compiling \fInamed\fP.
139 Turns off debugging completely.
141 For more detailed debugging, define DEBUG when compiling the resolver
142 routines into \fI/lib/libc.a\fP.
145 Toggles tracing of all incoming queries if \fInamed\fP has been
146 compiled with \fIQRYLOG\fP defined. The trace is sent to syslog, and
147 is huge, but it is very useful for tracking down problems.
149 To run with tracing of all queries specify the \fI-q\fP flag on the
150 command line. If you routinely log queries you will probably want to
151 analyze the results using the dnsstats stats script in the
155 Dumps statistics data into \fI/var/tmp/named.stats\fP if the server
156 is built with \fISTATS\fP defined. Statistics are appended to the file.