Chained notifies

David Botham dns at botham.net
Mon Oct 14 12:31:15 UTC 2002


Use explicit Notifies.  That is, turn off notify on all your name
servers.  Then, on each name server, in each zone statement, specify the
following:

also-notify {<ip-of-server-to-notify>;};
notify explicit;


More can be found in the ARM on this subject...


Dave....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Rodney Joffe
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:04 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Chained notifies
> 
> 
> I have a strange situation, a possibly unique one.
> 
> In my configuration I have a bind 8 server (server A) established in a
> dmz. I have a bind 8 server operating as a master in the open Internet
> (server B). And I have a third bind 8 server behind a firewall in
> rfc1918 address space (server C). I have a tunnel between server A and
> server C, both of which function as slaves.
> 
> A zone in Server B is modified. Server B sends a notify to Server A.
> Server A, using tsig, performs a transfer from Server B. Having
> completed the transfer, I need server A to send a notify for the
changed
> zone to Server C.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a solution? I have to use the 3 server system - I
> don't have an option due to the client's security firewall
requirement.
> I've not been able to find anything in the docs, but I'm sure I'm
> missing something obvious.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> /rlj



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