How to use NOTIFY

[Cricket Liu]

root <shaun at skillin.com> wrote in message
news:<37E3F693.D74F61C1 at skillin.com>...
> I've recently set up DNS on a linux box as a master.  My old master ( a
> NT machine) is now secondary.  The only examples I've seen for using the
> notify statement have been "notify no".

That's probably because it's on (i.e., "notify yes") by default in BIND 8.

> How do I use notify if I want
> to tell my secondary when updates have occurred.  They're not in sync
> now, after restarting both of them.  It seems as if the new info isn't
> being pushed  to the secondary, or pulled from the master, and I'm not
> sure who's job that is.  Any help is, of course, very appreciated.

The master should be sending a NOTIFY message to the slave, and the slave
should take that NOTIFY message as an indication to check the serial number
of the zone in the notification.  If the transfer isn't happening, the slave
is probably logging some error to indicate why.

cricket

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