I had made a zone entry for a domain in the named.conf file , but it didn't effected should I restart the Bind service or please tell me how it will effected .

There are two things you need to do before a change to a zone file takes place:

1. Increment the serial number in the zone file.
2. Restart BIND.

Keep in mind that the change may not take effect right away. Depending on the TTL for the entry the old data may still reside on your caching name server.

oh yer about your serial number is goes in the format :

YYYYMMDDnn

so if you changed it for the first time on so the 5th of october, 2002 you serial number will loke like this :

2002100501

always increase the nn once evertime you change your dns everyday

Also, you deiffinently need to restart bind

hope this helps

Originally posted by matt2kjones
oh yer about your serial number is goes in the format :

YYYYMMDDnn



While that is an acceptable convention the serial number does not have to be in any particular format -- it can be any string of numbers (although there is a limit to the length of the string).

#1: Be sure to increment the serial number
#2: Send a HUP signal (kill -HUP) to the named proccess.
#3: Wait for your children to grow up while the changes propagate:cartman: