sending notifies from slave server

[Barry Finkel]

saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I am using bind 9.2.1 in my debian system and it
>works well both in master & slave servers.
>
>When the zone transfer completes, I was noticed that "
>zone abc.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 11) " & 
>zone 211.19.20.in-addr.arpa/IN: sending notifies
>(serial 11) " in the slave server.
>    Generally the primary server will send a
>notification and the slave servers will accept. But
>why slave servers send a notification? To whom it will
>send?

Others have already posted answers, but I will post one more.  It is
perfectly legal for a slave server to transfer a zone from another
slave, if the zones are configured to do that.  Therefore, a slave
server sends NOTIFY packets to the servers in the "Notify Set".
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