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Chapter 13 Working With Network Services 135
DNS Service
Starting and Stopping the DNS Service
To start DNS service:
$ sudo serveradmin start dns
To stop DNS service:
$ sudo serveradmin stop dns
Checking the Status of DNS Service
To see summary status of DNS service:
$ sudo serveradmin status dns
To see detailed status of DNS service:
$ sudo serveradmin fullstatus dns
Viewing DNS Service Settings
To list DNS service configuration settings:
$ sudo serveradmin settings dns
To list a particular setting:
$ sudo serveradmin settings dns:setting
To list a group of settings:
Type only as much of the name as you want, stopping at a colon (:), then type an
asterisk (*) as a wildcard for the remaining parts of the name. For example,
$ sudo serveradmin settings dns:zone:_array_id:localhost:*
Changing DNS Service Settings
You can use serveradmin to modify your server’s DNS configuration. However, you’ll
probably find it more straightforward to work directly with DNS and BIND using the
standard tools and techniques described in the many books on the subject. (See, for
example, “DNS and BIND” by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu.)
DNS Service Settings
To list the settings, see “Viewing DNS Service Settings” on this page.
List of DNS serveradmin Commands
Viewing the DNS Service Log
You can use tail or any other file listing tool to view the contents of the DNS service
log.
Command (dns:command=) Description
getLogPaths Find the location of the DNS service log. See “Viewing the DNS
Service Log” on this page.
getStatistics Retrieve DNS service statistics. See “Listing DNS Service Statistics”
on page 136.
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