The NOTIFY mechanism (was Re: short ttl and servermmirroring)

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Feb 16 15:46:40 UTC 2000


In article <3091.950660125 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "john" == hilgart  <hilgart at netscape.net> writes:
>    john> I was hoping for a 1- or 2-second value for this feature to
>    john> kick in.  These timings are key to enable rapid failover to
>    john> back-up servers.
>
>I think you are mistaken. The NOTIFY mechanism allows for fast
>propagation of fresh zone data. This has nothing to do with "rapid
>failover to back-up servers". What if the master server dies while a
>zone transfer is in progress to one of your so-called back-up servers?

I think he was referring to back-up *web* servers.  He's trying to use
BIND's notify mechanism as a poor man's Distributed Director.

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