BIND does not send notifies

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi,
> 
> I have BIND 8.2.3-REL running here. When I update a zone the server does not
> send notifies to the slaves, although I have options notify enabled. Even
> tcpdump doesn't give any notify traffic as well.
> 

	"fetch-glue no;" will stop the nameserver from looking up the
	address records of the servers if they are not in any of the
	zones it is serving.

> When I add a global "also-notify" directive, the whole thing works.
> 
> Nevertheless, zone transfers from the slave work properly, but they are only
> initiated after the SOA timeout.
> 
> Here are my options; what can be wrong?
> 
> options {
>         pid-file "/var/named/named.pid";
>         directory "/etc/dns";
>         notify yes;
>         fetch-glue no;
>         recursion no;
>         allow-transfer {
>             // Slaves' IP addresses....
>         };
> };
> 
> -- 
> Gruss           * Holger Metschulat
>   Holger        * e-mail: homer at stellwerke.de, http://www.sgs.wh.tu-darmstadt
> .de/homer
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> 
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