Use of "notify" and "also-notify"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ecffre$12un$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> wrote:

> We are in the process of transitioning our master DNS servers to another 
> hosting provider.
> 
> In preparation for that, I'm having them begin secondary transfers from 
> our internal master server.
> 
> It  occurred to me that during this time, I do NOT want the server to 
> send notifies to our current (soon to be old) DNS servers (at the other 
> provider), but we DO want updates to go to the new array.

Why don't you want notifies going to the current servers?  You say 
you're still in the preparation stage, so the current servers are still 
the ones that your domain is delegated to.  So shouldn't they continue 
to stay up to date?  Even if you turn off notifies, they'll still poll 
for zone transfers based on the refresh interval.  So unless you also 
remove the old servers from the allow-transfer list, they'll pick up 
your changes eventually; you might as well continue to notify them.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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