Notify Option

[Cricket Liu]

> Can somebody please briefly explain what the notify=no or notify=yes
option
> does for a master server. If one chooses yes, will this inform a secondary
dns > server of changes.

Yup, if that secondary master is listed in the NS records for the zone or in
the also-notify list.  See RFC 1996 for details.

> Also, is there a way to make the master BIND 8.2.1 "tell" a Windows NT4
> server about changes to its records or about new records - preferable
> automatically.

That would also be NOTIFY, which Microsoft DNS Servers understand.

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