which servers get a notify request?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <019a01bf95b4$755945e0$34eefcce at adhara.bigsky.net>,
Josh Higham <bindadmin at bigsky.net> wrote:
>Sorry about the duplicate post; I wasn't sure whether the initial post was
>rejected, or was sent to moderators.
>
>> If you have a hidden primary then the SOA MNAME field should
>> be the name of the hidden primary.  The soa record is not looked
>> at to determine who to query for information about the zone.
>
>
>Then what is it used for?  I think I can change it without ill effect, but
>I'd like to get some more information about what it is actually used for.  I
>understand that the contact information is there for human consumption; is
>the SOA nameserver also for human consumption?  Is it unused?

It's used for dynamic updates, if you make use of that feature.

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