TTL not decreasing on slave servers

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Mariano Cunietti wrote:
>>The slaves are authoritative as well, don't forget. They will always return the correct, absolute TTL, just liek the master. To outsiders there is no practical difference between a master and a slave. Only a cache will return the currently remaining TTL.
>>
>>What "record values" are you expecting to see updated? If the SOA you get from the slave is the same as the SOA you get from the master, then the zone transfers are working correctly.
>>
>>Regards, K.
>> 
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> 
> 
> OK, my fault, slave TTLs should not decrease.
> 
> Still, the main problem is that if I change some values on the master's
> zones (and increase the serial, so that SOA is different) zones are not
> updated on the slaves until I issue a "rndc stop/start" on the slave. A
> "rndc reload" won't do the job.
> Why?
> 
> I paste my slave named.conf "options" settings:
> 
> // ACL to allow zone transfers from Enter DNS servers
> acl "slave-enter" {
>         212.29.130.48;
> };
> 
> // ACL to allow zone transfers from non-Enter DNS servers
> acl "slave-esterni" {
>         193.205.245.8; 193.205.245.12; 212.177.124.32; 212.29.133.66;
> };
> 
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
> 
>         listen-on      { 212.29.129.3; 127.0.0.1; };
>         query-source address * port 53;
>         allow-transfer { "slave-enter"; "slave-esterni"; };
>         allow-recursion { any; };
>         version "Curiosity killed the cat";
> };
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Mariano
> 
> 
> 
would it be possible to see one of the zone files which you are having a 
problem with?