SOA/NS Question

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Sep 20 18:22:31 UTC 1999


> Jim Reid <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:
> > >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> writes:
> >     Barry> We have NOT listed dns0 in a NS record, as we do not want
> >     Barry> machines to query that name server.  The SOA record points
> >     Barry> to dns1, as that is the "primary" dns server we want
> >     Barry> machines to be querying.  Our off-site secondaries are
> >     Barry> generating error messages stating that dns1 is really not
> >     Barry> the SOA.
...
> The problem is that NOTIFY requests come from dns0 which is not
> listed as the master for the zone. Secondaries receive the NOTIFY and
> complain that they are getting NOTIFY messages from a system that is not 
> master for the zone.

I believe that you also need to put dns0 in the SOA statement, instead
of dns1.

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