Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 3 117
Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
Configuring a Primary Master Name Server
To Delete a Host from the Domain Data Files
1. Delete the host from /etc/hosts and run hosts_to_named again.
or
Delete the host manually, as follows:
• Edit db.[ domain ]. Delete all A, CNAME, HINFO, WKS, and MX
resource records associated with the host. Increment the serial
number in the SOA resource record.
• Edit db.[ net ]. Delete all PTR resource records for the host.
Increment the serial number in the SOA resource record.
2. After modifying the domain data files, issue the following command to
restart the name server and force it to reload its databases:
/usr/sbin/sig_named restart