also-notify - how long should it take?

Karma Crayona karmac at my-deja.com
Thu Jun 8 21:45:03 UTC 2000


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In article <8hmkd0$oma$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  icculus4128 at my-deja.com wrote:
>
>
> After a lot of searching, I finally got the also-notify syntax down
> (boy, this could be documented better - all I can find is a one
> sentence blurb in the CHANGES file in 8.2.2p5 distribution and finally
> tracked down a clarification from Barry in this newsgroup on the
> syntax).
>
> But it still doesn't seem to be working.
>
> We've got an external master DNS server, 192.48.244.69, and an
internal
> one which all internal machines point to, 10.64.16.13. (so, if our
> firewall goes down at least internal stuff still resolves)
>
> I've got specified on the master in the named.conf:
>
> zone "johnstewart.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "johnstewart.com";
>         also-notify { 10.64.16.13; };
> };
>
> I changed a record in the johnstewart.com domain, did a named reload
> (also tried a full restart), and the internal DNS server, 10.64.16.13,
> doesn't see the changes (it is configured as a slave for
> johnstewart.com, and has 192.48.244.69 as the master).
>
> I've been doing manual named-xfer's every time I update the main DNS
> server, but I thought this also-notify would take care of updating the
> internal DNS server.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? (if any further info would be helpful
> I'll certainly provide it)
>
> thanks!
>
> johnS
>
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