bind NOTIFY protocol

[Cricket Liu]

> I was curious if anyone was familiar with the
> NOTIFY protocol and how the master sends out a 
> NOTIFY request to all the slaves.  Specifically,
> I am curious on how the master is able to determine
> who the slaves are (i.e. NS records defined in its
> zone configuration files) or does it keep record
> of previously initiated zone-xfers from the slaves?

It uses the list of NS records for the zone as well as any
explicit also-notify substatements.  See RFC 1996.

cricket