Suppressing duplicate notify

Tilman Schmidt Tilman.Schmidt at sema.de
Fri Mar 3 10:24:58 UTC 2000


At 19:52 02.03.00 +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
>have helped if you'd provided the relevant information -  like the zone
>file and named.conf - at the outset. If you're still getting warnings
>about duplicate NOTIFYs, then you must have a duplicate NS record. Or
>different NS records that have names pointing at the same IP address.

I am getting that message too since my upgrade to BIND 8.2.2-P5 and have
never been able to find out why. I had already resigned to just ignoring
it, but following this discussion has revived my curiosity. This is what
BIND gave me last time it was restarted:

--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: starting.  named 8.2.2-P5 Thu Dec  2 09:49:55 MET 1999 ^Its at igate:/usr/local/src/bind-8.2.2-P5/src/bin/named
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 1999010401)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1999010401)
[...]
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: master zone "sema.de" (IN) loaded (serial 1999122201)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: master zone "semagroup.de" (IN) loaded (serial 1999092003)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: slave zone "sgbs.sema.de" (IN) loaded (serial 2000012800)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: slave zone "sgo.sema.de" (IN) loaded (serial 2000012800)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: slave zone "sgbs.semagroup.de" (IN) loaded (serial 2000012800)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: slave zone "sgo.semagroup.de" (IN) loaded (serial 2000012800)
[...]
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: listening on [192.168.70.2].53 (eth0)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: listening on [194.123.157.114].53 (eth1)
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[332]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1025
Feb 23 11:51:28 igate named[333]: Ready to answer queries.
Feb 23 11:51:34 igate named[333]: suppressing duplicate notify ("semagroup.de" IN SOA)
Feb 23 11:51:41 igate named[333]: Sent NOTIFY for "sema.de IN SOA" (sema.de); 2 NS, 2 A
Feb 23 11:51:41 igate named[333]: Received NOTIFY answer from 193.141.40.1 for "sema.de IN SOA"
Feb 23 11:51:41 igate named[333]: Received NOTIFY answer from 194.120.12.245 for "sema.de IN SOA"
[...]
Feb 23 11:51:57 igate named[333]: Sent NOTIFY for "semagroup.de IN SOA" (semagroup.de); 2 NS, 2 A
Feb 23 11:51:57 igate named[333]: Received NOTIFY answer from 194.120.12.245 for "semagroup.de IN SOA"
Feb 23 11:51:57 igate named[333]: Received NOTIFY answer from 193.141.40.1 for "semagroup.de IN SOA"
-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------

It doesn't appear at every restart, and if it appears it's not always for
the same zone, even if the zone and configuration files haven't changed,
so I am really confused here. It also never happens on "ndc reload", only
on complete restarts, which are of course rather rare, so I have only
had three occurrences so far: two for my zone 112-127.157.123.194.in-addr.arpa
and the one above for zone semagroup.de.

Here's the relevant part of my named.conf:

--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
// local nets -- may query and transfer anything
acl "local" {
         localhost;
         10.0.0.0/8;
         172.16.0.0/12;
         192.168.0.0/16;
         194.123.157.112/28;
};

// DE Hostcount server -- may transfer all zones
acl "hostcounter" {
         129.70.132.4;
};

// Berechtigung zum Zonentransfer von unseren Primary Zones
acl "master-xferers" {
         local;
         hostcounter;
         // secondary nameservers
         193.141.40.1;
         193.141.40.41;          // ??
         194.120.12.245;
};

// Berechtigung zum Zonentransfer von Zonen, für die wir Secondary sind
acl "slave-xferers" {
         local;
         hostcounter;
};

options {
         directory "/var/named";

         allow-query { local; };
         allow-transfer { local; };
};

//
// Root Domain Bootstrap Cache
//
zone "." {
         type hint;
         file "named.root";
};

[...]

//
// Forward Mapping fuer sema.de und semagroup.de
//
zone "sema.de" {
         type master;
         file "sema.de";
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { master-xferers; };
};

zone "semagroup.de" {
         type master;
         file "semagroup.de";
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { master-xferers; };
};

//
// delegierte Subdomains, fuer die wir Secondary sind
//

zone "sgbs.sema.de" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/sgbs.sema.de";
         masters { 62.157.188.114; };
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { slave-xferers; };
};

zone "sgo.sema.de" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/sgo.sema.de";
         masters { 62.157.188.114; };
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { slave-xferers; };
};

zone "sgbs.semagroup.de" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/sgbs.semagroup.de";
         masters { 62.157.188.114; };
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { slave-xferers; };
};

zone "sgo.semagroup.de" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/sgo.semagroup.de";
         masters { 62.157.188.114; };
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { slave-xferers; };
};

//
// Reverse Mapping fuer 194.123.157.112/28
//
zone "112-127.157.123.194.in-addr.arpa" {
         type master;
         file "P194.123.157.112-127";
         allow-query { any; };
         allow-transfer { master-xferers; };
};
-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------

And here, just for the record, the semagroup.de zone file as of the last
restart:

--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
$ORIGIN semagroup.de.
$TTL 1w
;
@       IN      SOA     ns.sema.de.     hostmaster.sema.de.     (
                         1999092003      ; Serial        YYYYMMDDnn
                              86400      ; Refresh       24 Stunden
                               7200      ; Retry          2 Stunden
                             604800      ; Expire         7 Tage
                              86400 )    ; min. TTL       1 Tag
;
         IN      NS      ns.sema.de.
         IN      NS      koeln.nic.xlink.net.
         IN      NS      Xlink1.xlink.net.
         IN      MX      10 mail.sema.de.
         IN      MX      200 relay.xlink.net.
;
www             IN      A       194.64.40.55
                 IN      MX      10      mail.sema.de.
                 IN      MX      200     relay.xlink.net.
;
www.ts          IN      A       194.64.40.63
                 IN      MX      10      mail.sema.de.
                 IN      MX      200     relay.xlink.net.
;
wswg            IN      CNAME   www                     ; WSWG-FTP-Server
;
cgtec           IN      NS      ns.cgtec.sema.de.
;
sgbs            IN      NS      dns.sgbs.sema.de.
                 IN      NS      ns.sema.de.
sgo             IN      NS      dns.sgbs.sema.de.
                 IN      NS      ns.sema.de.
;
so              IN      MX      200     hermes.btu.de.
*.so            IN      MX      200     hermes.btu.de.
www.so          IN      A       194.64.40.62
-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------

Any ideas?

-- 
Tilman Schmidt          E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt at sema.de (office)
Sema Group Koeln, Germany       tilman at schmidt.bn.uunet.de (private)




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