NOTIFY's and Multi-Homed Machines

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Jul 25 23:27:16 UTC 2000


> I have a customer who has a multi-homed BIND system that is sending me
> NOTIFY's, but they're showing up as coming from a "Non-Master" server.
> 
> We're set up to slave from him and that's working properly and
> propagating to all my servers, however since the NOTIFY's show up as
> from his other IP on his system, my nameserver ignores them.

	Well have him list *both* addresses as masters.
> 
> Without having a copy of his named.conf, is there anyone who knows
> whether or not there's a way to tell BIND to send NOTIFY's from a
> specific IP address?  Or can I tell my servers to go ahead and do zone
> transfers off of NOTIFY's from the incorrect IP?

	query-source also controls the addresses notifies get sent from.

> 
> Thanks in advance, please feel free to CC me, but I also read the
> list... I'll just notice it sooner if it's in my inbox.  :)
> 
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