Notify question..

[James Raftery]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:54:05PM +0500, simmen : wrote:
> if u r using notify=yes .then on the change of zone the secoundry is 
> notified for the transfer(right!).
> dose that mean that the serial no: is ignored???.

When a nameserver gets a NOTIFY a for a zone it should perform the
actions associated with the refresh timer expiring for that zone. See
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1996.txt
So, in essence, NOTIFY means 'expire the refresh timer now'. An expired
refresh timer causes BIND to query for the SOA record to see if the zone
has been updated.

james