Bind 9.0.1 not NOTIFYing slave?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	BIND 8.1.2 incorrectly classifies NOTIFY messages with
	with SOA records as FORMERR's.  The SOA record can be
	used to decided whether to perform a refresh check or
	not in response to the NOTIFY.

	Mark

> >A recently built BIND 9.0.1 server (running on a Solaris 8 box) doe
> sn't seem
> >to be notifying a slave server (believed to be 8.1.2 running on Sol
> aris 2.6
> >but can't confirm until after the weekend) after updates.
> >
> >...[text deleted]...
> 
> Well, I got access to the slave server in question.  It turns out to
>  be a
> completely unpatched Solaris 2.7 box, running SUN's BIND 8.1.2.
> 
> The addition of some logging clauses to that slave shows me that it 
> is
> receiving NOTIFY messages from the new master server.  But, any atte
> mpted
> updates from that master produce a stream of the following messages 
> (and no
> DNS updates):
> 
> 	FORMERR Notify header counts wrong
> 
> Note that the current debug level on the slave server is 4.
> 
> Can anybody tell me what's happening here?  Will patches 107018-02 a
> nd/or
> 106938-04 have any effect (the description for both doesn't seem to 
> indicate
> so but they are recommended patches).
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
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