# Start / Stop /Restart BIND DNS Server

## Introduction

For testing purposes I am using Univention with bind9. The greater goal is to use AD/SAMBA from Univention. After testing for a couple of weeks suddenly some DNS addresses do not get resolved. The same problems occurred on Zentyal.

So far I couldn't find a reason for this misbehavior. However, a restart of the bind9 service seems to patch the problem.

## Debian based Linux

### Start the service

```bash
service bind9 start
```

### Stop the service

```bash
service bind9 stop
```

### Restart the service

```bash
service bind9 restart
```

### Reload the service

This will become necessary of a configuration file is changed.

```bash
service bind9 reload
```

### Check status

```bash
service bind9 status
```

## Fedora based Linux

### Start the service

```bash
systemctl start named
```

### Stop the service

```bash
systemctl stop named
```

### Restart the service

```bash
systemctl restart named
```

### Check status

```bash
systemctl status named
```

##