How to change from NIS to DNS without a reboot

[Mike Burger]

Did you try restarting named?

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:

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> I am currently changing all of our Redhat WS version 3 machines to DNS. I
> have edited the /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf to the settings we
> require. We have stopped and started the ypbind service but it is not
> changing over to  use the DNS settings. The only way we can get it too pick
> up the new settings is to reboot the machine but unfortunatley this is not
> an option with some current live servers. Is there a way of getting this
> change to be dynamic.
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> Regards
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