$INCLUDE nameservers and also-notify

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mon Nov 27 22:32:21 UTC 2000


	That is not how it works.  It doesn't matter whether the
	NS RRset is learnt from the main master file or via a
	$INCLUDE.  If your server is having trouble sending out
	notifies it is most probably because it is have trouble
	looking up the A records for the servers.

	Mark

> i just wanted to verify that the behavior i am seeing is not unexpected:
> when i had specified the ns records for my nameservers (ns1.domain.org
> as
> master and ns2.domain.org as slave) in the zone file itself,
> notifications
> were sent from ns1 to ns2 when the zone was updated.  however, when i
> used $INCLUDE with a file containing the nameserver list, i needed to
> also define an also-notify list in my named.conf file.
> 
> is that the way it should work?
> 
> tia...
> 
> 	andy
> 
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