help with notify-source

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fsc8i4$25ee$1 at sf1.isc.org>, tony z <tzucc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hi Barry,
> yes I did check logs... I even turned on debug logging at level 50... no 
> errors on startup... no errors at times when NOTIFYs were going out on the 
> wrong IP address (in other words not the IP configured in notify-source). And 
> yes, I am 100% sure I was editing the named.conf that named was using... I 
> just checked now, and there is no other named.conf, no chroot directory, 
> etc... 

And if you put a syntax error in the file, does it log an error?

Something MUST be causing it to ignore these lines in the file.

> Again, perhaps the issue with BIND and IP's assigned to ethernet alias. BIND 
> kept going to eth1 first, then rotating around all my other IPs on the 
> eth0:[0-3] .... totally ignoring my notify-source. I did post my 
> named.conf... was how I used notify-source ok?

If you used it wrong you would have gotten a syntax error in the log.  
But it's behaving as if you didn't use it at all.  Alias IPs are fine, 
that's an expected use of this option.

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