Forcing zone transfers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <006f01bf1ed3$0476f1e0$23a004d8 at tony.idws.com>,
Tony Da Silva <tony at idws.com> wrote:
>I have a BIND 8 server and NT4 dns server which is the secondary.
>
>How can I make the BIND 8 server transfer the new zone info to the NT
>server when it has been added - currently the NT only receives the INFO
>after approx 3 hours as per the times in the zone files. But I would like

If you want it to transfer more often, why do you set the refresh time so
high?

>it if initially one can issue a command on the BIND machine which would
>forward the new info to the NT machine.

BIND 8 and Microsoft DNS both implement the NOTIFY mechanism.  The master
server should notify all the servers listed in NS records whenever the zone
is reloaded, and they should transfer the zone immediately.  Did you forget
to list the slave server in your NS records?

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