Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how DNS settings can be made effective after changing the resolv.conf file. I don't want to shut down and restart, so I'm looking for a possible process that I can stop and start. However, I'm not having any luck finding information to do so. Does anyone know if this can be done, and how? And on a side note, I'm changing the time servers in the ntp.conf file as well, and as far as I can tell, I'll only need to stop and start the xntpd service. Does this sound right?
you don't have to reboot to activate dns resolving, make sure your /etc/resolv.conf is ok:
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
and set you nsswitch.conf to use the dns:
.
..
hosts files dns
..
.
to find hosts in your domain faster, you can add a line
"search mydomain.com" to the /etc/resolv.conf file (I think the line must be on top of the file...)