Strange problem

Måns Nilsson mansaxel at kthnoc.net
Fri May 25 08:46:15 UTC 2007


--On måndag, måndag 21 maj 2007 23.40.41 +0200 Jean-François Leroux
<leroux.jeanfrancois at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Doubled notifies should not be a problem; they're just discarded or
>> NOOP's.
>> Make certain that you see a notify from the server you have in masters
>> {}; directive -- the slave will by default discard notifies from servers
>> not in
>> masters {}; (But also look at "allow-notify").
> 
> Yes, the slave discards notifies, as I've seen in the log. Now can I (or
> should I) allow notification from my internal slave, either by adding it
> as a master for that zone or by adding it in my 'notifers' acl, which is
> used inside the zone statement?
> What I'd like to do is giving redundancy, but I'm not sure this is the
> correct way to do it.

Having multiple masters is one idea. If played right, you can automatically
avoid problems caused by losing any one node (except perhaps the hidden
master; there, you might need to do manual work.) by having multiple paths. 
 
> One idea; is the zone size
>> significant? It might be so that the notify arrives from S1 to S4 and is
>> processed before the zone has been properly transfered to S2.
> 
> 
> Well, no, the zone isn't really significant ( about 100 lines), but the
> idea was fine. Actually, reinstalling bind9 solved this, so I guess
> something had gone wrong when updating from 9.3.2 to 9.3.4.
> 
> Thanks for your answer too.
> 
> 
> 
>  



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