How does my server know who to Notify?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jun 25 21:43:19 UTC 1999


In article <3773E8D7.9AFACCF1 at checkstop.com>,
Leroy Janda  <ljanda at checkstop.com> wrote:
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>
>> In article <3773985B.D68A083 at checkstop.com>, LJ  <ljanda at checkstop.com> wrote:
>> >I am running named for a master zone and several zones. When I make a
>> >change to my named files, and reset, the log indicates Sent Notify....
>> >
>> >How does my server know where to send the new information.
>> >Does this occur automatically or does the DNS admin at my ISP have to do
>> >something to propogate the new info?
>>
>> It sends it to the servers listed in the zone's NS records, as well as any
>> addresses you configured with the also-notify option in named.conf.
>
>By Zone's NS records, do you mean the Information that I have registered in the
>Internic?

No, the information you put in the zone file on the master server itself.
The zone file should begin with something like:

@ IN SOA ...
  IN NS  ns1.yourdomain.com.
  IN NS  ns2.yourdomain.com.
  IN NS  ns3.yourdomain.com.

If ns1 is your master server, it will send notifies to ns2 and ns3.

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