Bind 9.0.0 slaves sends NOTIFY

[James Raftery]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:34:38PM +0000, peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:
> If i update the master (bind-8.2.2-p5) a notify is sent, and the zone 
> transfereed ok. But after a few seconds a notify comes in the
> other direction (from bind-9.0.0 slave to the master)

Yes; it caught me by surprise too. It was explained as being there to
support slave nameservers which themselves act as a master to some other
nameserver.

It can be disabled on a zone-by-zone basis by adding "notify no;" to the
relevant zone statement.

Regards,

james
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