NOTIFY Probs on Bind8.22 on NT

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Aug 30 18:23:56 UTC 2000


The "notify yes" zone option would only be necessary if you had an explicit
"notify no" global option.


- Kevin

McNair, Dan wrote:

> Try adding "notify yes;" to your zone.  (O'Reilly _DNS_and_BIND_ p.231)
>
> zone "mydomain.com"     IN      {
>         type master;
>         file "mydomain.com.dns";
>         notify yes;
>         also notify { 192.168.224.11; };
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Murphy [mailto:richard at bgfl.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:00 AM
> To: Comp-Protocols-Dns-Bind
> Subject: NOTIFY Probs on Bind8.22 on NT
>
> Afternoon all
>
> I have a problem with notification on  BIND2.2.2 runing on NT 4 (SP6a).
>
> Currently have 2 Internet Facing NS both running on above setup as Primary
> and secondary for mulitple zones yet when I update a zone and change the
> serial (date set) on the master notification fails to take place.
>
> Example zone from my primary named.conf looks like:
>
> zone "mydomain.com"     IN      {
>         type master;
>         file "mydomain.com.dns";
>         also notify { 192.168.224.11; };
>
> Example conf from slave named.conf looks like:
>
> zone "mydomain.com"     IN      {
>         type slave;
>         file "mydomain.com.dns";
>         masters { 192.168.224.10; };
>
> Where the zone file "mydomain.com.dns" SOA for the serial is configured as:
>
> @       IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mydomain.com. (
>                 200008300 ; Serial
>                 3600    ; Refresh after 3 Hours
>                 3600    ; Retry after 1 Hour
>                 604800 ; Expire after 1 Week
>                 86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
>
> The only answer has been to remove the zone file on my secondary Name Server
> and restart the service (ISC BIND) which will generate a new file from the
> updated master records but even this drastic action can fail as the new file
> on occasion will generate the records from its cache??
>
> Any ideas people, anyone experience problems before with Bind on NT and
> specifically notify requests.??  I could do with solving this as we are
> authoratative for 450 domains and administering these under either NT4 or
> 2000 (where notification works) will be a nightmare where as text based
> editing on Bind for 450 domains is a piece of, er, p1ss and somehting I want
> to keep.. Anyway who wants to have DNS records in the registry? ;)
>
> TIA
>
> Richard..
>
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