secondary dns updates

[Chandan Teckchandani chandan_teck@yahoo.com0]

Simon Hobson <shobson0309 at colony.com> wrote in message news:<bnquhr$1jt6$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> netdel wrote:
> 
> >Updates in the secondary DNS should happen when we update Serial no of
> >the forward/reverse file of a particualar zone at the master or it
> >should have
> >after we update serial in master and restart the server at secondary ?
> >
> >My problem is that updates dont happen in secondary unless I restart
> >the secondary DNS server.  Please tell is it like that or it should
> >happen when I simply change a serial in master.
> 
> It depends on how your system is set up.
> 
> IFF your secondary is listed as an authoritative nameserver in the 
> zone file (ie it is one of the listed NS records), OR the master has 
> an also-notify statement that lists it, then it should update fairly 
> quickly as the master will notify the slave when the zone changes. 
> The slave is then responsible for requesting the update.
> 
> Otherwise, the slave will request the serial number periodically 
> according to the time values set in the SOA record. So if your update 
> period is set to several days, your updates may well take several 
> days to propagate.
> 
> Simon
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Thanks a lot for your fast responses.

We do have notify clause (notify=yes;) in the master but still it is
not happening .  Even when the refresh cycle expires (refesh=3600) we
do not get updates. It is only updated when we retstart.

Any solutions.

Chandan
mailme at chandan.zzn.com
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