Puzzling XFR question

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Apr 13 04:12:40 UTC 2004


In article <c5f6sq$2fdo$1 at sf1.isc.org>, slidge at slidge.com.invalid 
wrote:

> >Is ns1 listed in the NS records of the zones, or the "also-notify"
> >option in ns0's named.conf?  If not, it won't be notified that the zones
> >have updated, so it doesn't know to refresh them immediately; it will
> >instead wait until the SOA Refresh period expires and poll them.
> 
>  Sorry about the double follow-up, but looking in the BIND ARM, I see
>  under the "notify" option:
> 
>   If yes (the default), DNS NOTIFY messages are sent when a zone the
>   server is authoritative for changes, see Section 3.3. The messages are
>   sent to the servers listed in the zone's NS records (except the master
>   server identified in the SOA MNAME field), and to any servers listed in
>   the also-notify option. 
> 
>  ns1 is listed in the SOA MNAME in all the zones.  I will add it to the
>  also-notify option, that should fix it.

Why don't you fix the SOA MNAME field?  It should contain ns0, since 
that's the master server.

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