bind9 + notifies

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "john" == john mund <pimmeletto at gmx.net> writes:

    john> Now my question: Why is the slave sending notifies (?) or is
    john> it only an answer to the primary (is that normal ?).....

The protocol requires an authoritative name server to send NOTIFYs to
the zone's name servers whenever it loads a new copy of the zone.
These get sent to what's known as the Notify set: typically all the
zone's NS records except the server sending the NOTIFY.