Master to Slave initial zone transfer question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2653.1397662961.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Jim Glassford <jmglass at iup.edu> wrote:

> On 4/16/2014 11:35 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <mailman.2651.1397662255.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> >   "Jeronimo L. Cabral" <jelocabral at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear, I've implemented two Debian 7 servers with Bind9 as a Master - Slave
> >> schema.
> >>
> >> Everything works OK, but I have just a question:
> >>
> >> When a create a new zone in the Master and reload the bind9 daemon, this
> >> zone doesn't appear automatically in the Slave....it only appears if I
> >> restart the bind9 daemon in the Slave server.
> >>
> >> Is this behaviour correct or is there any statement to transfer a new zone
> >> from Master to Slave withouth restarting the bind9 daemon in the Slave ???
> > To pick up new zones added to named.conf, you just need to use:
> >
> > rndc reconfig
> >
> > You don't need to restart the daemon on either the master or slave.
> >
> 
> To quicken the update process can use also-notify in options
> 
>         also-notify {
>          slave1.n.n.n;
>          slave2.n.n.n;
>         };

This will have no effect. A notify is only effective if the slave 
already has the zone configured. The OP's issue is with adding new zones 
to the slave in the first place.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA