Zone Transfers

[Kevin Darcy]

It should work the way you are configured. As you surmised, allow-update
is only for Dynamic Update and has nothing to do with master/slave
replication.

Do you see the slave sending an SOA query to the master for the zone
shortly after receiving the NOTIFY?

You might have to turn up logging or turn on debugging on the slave to
figure out why it's not behaving properly.


- Kevin


Tim Molloy wrote:

> I'm a little confused about zone tranfers. I have two name servers on
> different networks running bind 8.2.x. One the master, I have "notify
> yes" in each zone config and "allow-transfer {x.x.x.x;};" in the
> options. When I update a zone file, and increment the serial, i
> restart bind and check my logs, which state "Sent NOTIFY for domain
> blah.com" or something of the sort. Now, unless I restart my slave and
> reload the zones, the slave never performs a zone transfer of the new
> updates. Do I have to specify "allow-update" on my slave server for
> this to work properly. I was under the assumption that "allow-update"
> was used for dynamic DNS, not just zone transfers.
>
> I would appreciate any help on this matter
>
> thank you