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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: DNS cache--thanks!
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Thanks again to all of you--I feel like an idiot not having known 
about ndc, but it's not mentioned in the named man page.

> > 	send a SIGINT to the named process "kill -INT `cat /var/run/named.pid`"
> > 	the cached data will be in /var/tmp/named_dump.db
> 
> You might also want to check out ndc the " name daemon control interface" 
> command, it essentially puts a nice wrapper around all the various signals  
> and control functions you might want to apply to named.
> 
	Annelise