NOTIFY to slave does not initiate IXFR

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Symon <Symon at saltiresoftware.co.uk> wrote:
> Hope someone can help me with this one:

> I have a BIND installed and running on two separate machines (on different
> continents) one acting as master for all my domains and the other as slave
> for all my domains. The problem I am having is when I update a zone file on
> the master and issue the 'rndc reload <zone>' command. The master reloads
> the zone file without any problem, an issues a notify to the slave (I see
> both these actions in the syslog posted by the master). The slave then
> receives the noify (again, confirmed from the syslog  posted by the slave)
> but does not initiate a zone transfer. No error messages are posted in the
> syslog on the master or the slave.

> If I issue 'rndc refresh <zone>' on the slave then the transfer is initiated
> for the zone file and completes without any errors. How can I get the slave
> to initiate this zone transfer automatically on receipt of a notify from the
> master?

> Thanks for any help.

What versions of bind ? Snippets of config files ? what
domain(s) ?






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