BIND 8.2.2-P7 and NOTIFY flood

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Is there a way to prevent master to send NOTIFY to its slaves on start-up?
> I have noticed that master server always send a notify for all zones it has i
> n its configuration
> when named is initiated..
> 
> I have reviewed the current configuration options for 8.2.x, but can't find a
> ny way to disable
> this. You may set "notify no", but this totally disable the notify feature, a
> nd you usually don't
> want to do this. The reason for wanting to disable this initial notify, is th
> at the notify transactions
> between master and the slave(s) are somewhat time and CPU consuming when havi
> ng a large
> amount of zones allocated.
> 
> Are there actually any obvious reason for the master server to send notifies 
> for absolutely *all*
> zones on start-up?

	Yes.  There is no way for a nameserver to know if a zone was edited
	when the server was down.  The server sends the notifies in case
	the zone was modified.

	Mark
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kenneth Karoliussen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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