Just a quick clarification on also-notify option

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a8aksr$ilo at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Rakesh-Home <rshah at rupalifinechem.com> wrote:
>Friends, 
>I just wanted to quickly clarify one doubt. I am currently setting up a 
>slave DNS servers for our external zones, currently we have none. 
>
>and I was wondering if I  use this options in master named.conf 
>
>notify yes; 
>also-notify { ip.of.my.slaves.; }; 
>
>under the Global option section of named.conf, will be enough for all the 
>zone that this master is authorative for ? 

Yes.

>Since my slave will be slave for all the zones that master currently has. I 
>do not want to add also-notify in each and every zones since it will be a 
>very tedious job as it have lot's of zone in it and more chances of syntax 
>error's and typo's... 

Normally you should list the slave nameservers in the zone's NS records, so
you shouldn't need the 'also-notify' statements at all.  That's only needed
for slaves that aren't mentioned in NS records.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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