diff --git a/main/bind/APKBUILD b/main/bind/APKBUILD
index f96fdd904f40a91ddcb0effb41e5cc4048ced6db..8e7c3b2820dc6729aefdd9d145d36d6c5162a482 100644
--- a/main/bind/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/bind/APKBUILD
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Contributor: Sören Tempel <soeren+alpine@soeren-tempel.net>
 # Contributor: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
+# Contributor: ungleich <alpinelinux@ungleich.ch>
 # Maintainer:
 pkgname=bind
 pkgver=9.14.4
@@ -9,7 +10,7 @@ _ver=${pkgver%_p*}
 _p=${pkgver#*_p}
 _major=${pkgver%%.*}
 [ "$_p" != "$pkgver" ] && _ver="${_ver}-P$_p"
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="The ISC DNS server"
 url="https://www.isc.org"
 arch="all"
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ makedepends="
 	$_py3deps
 	python3-dev
 	"
-install="$pkgname.pre-install"
+install="$pkgname.pre-install $pkgname.post-install"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-dev $pkgname-libs $pkgname-openrc
 	${pkgname}-${_root_keys_upstream}:root_keys:noarch
 	py3-$pkgname:_py3 $pkgname-dnssec-tools:_dnssec_tools
@@ -253,7 +254,7 @@ gpgfingerprints="
 sha512sums="f5f4dc9b6a1d60838b59ce57ad37dc1e51fa26719aa203405a73850780f06bdc6ecea71c762efd464f946bdcce5a7c324de98caea36d2fe2781cce116fcd4932  bind-9.14.4.tar.gz
 2b32d1e7f62cd1e01bb4fdd92d15460bc14761b933d5acc463a91f5ecd4773d7477c757c5dd2738e8e433693592cf3f623ffc142241861c91848f01aa84640d6  bind.plugindir.patch
 7167dccdb2833643dfdb92994373d2cc087e52ba23b51bd68bd322ff9aca6744f01fa9d8a4b9cd8c4ce471755a85c03ec956ec0d8a1d4fae02124ddbed6841f6  bind.so_bsdcompat.patch
-ca779f52a0a96d774bbc4dbb4e62d136f483ce528693ac73b844435be73500d8495bfddce34534825b5f6fa3197601e3175918a076428bab52bbc33c509a816e  named.initd
+53db80f7ee4902f42fb1d0bc959242bcb6f20d95256bda99ce2c206af8b4703c7f72bb26d026c633f70451b84a37c3946b210951e34dd5d6620b181cd0183de4  named.initd
 127bdcc0b5079961f0951344bc3fad547450c81aee2149eac8c41a8c0c973ea0ffe3f956684c6fcb735a29c43d2ff48c153b6a71a0f15757819a72c492488ddf  named.confd
 d2f61d02d7829af51faf14fbe2bafe8bc90087e6b6697c6275a269ebbddcaa14a234fff5c41da793e945e8ff1de3de0858a40334e0d24289eab98df4bb721ac5  named.conf.authoritative
 3aba9763cfaf0880a89fd01202f41406b465547296ce91373eb999ea7719040bc1ac4e47b0de025a8060f693d3d88774a20d09a43fa7ac6aa43989b58b5ee8fe  named.conf.recursive
diff --git a/main/bind/bind.post-install b/main/bind/bind.post-install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa1b7a85e59296e3c457dcdbe5b69914352a556b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/bind/bind.post-install
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Generate key required for reload to work -> creates /etc/bind/rndc.key
+if ! [ -f /etc/bind/rndc.key ]; then
+	rndc-confgen -a
+	chown named:named /etc/bind/rndc.key
+fi
diff --git a/main/bind/named.initd b/main/bind/named.initd
index cd62615600932e0fe288d2cdf84fe6ec551ff688..cad932c68d204a456daf09288b68a68eaa5f7d57 100644
--- a/main/bind/named.initd
+++ b/main/bind/named.initd
@@ -82,3 +82,10 @@ stop() {
 	eend $?
 }
 
+reload() {
+	checkconfig
+
+	ebegin "Reloading $name"
+	rndc reload
+	eend $?
+}