Issues with DNS NOTIFY using BIND 9.1.3 and Re: BIND 9 Not Sending Updates?

[Barry Finkel]

I am responding to two threads because the answer to both is similar.

hunter at ratevegas.com (Hunter Hillegas) wrote:

>We just started running BIND 9 and it seems like it is not sending
>NOTIFY messages to secondaries when the zone is updated and serial
>number is changed.
>
>The logs show named starting, etc... but after a HUP there is no
>mention of a NOTIFY being sent for zones that have changed...

Vinson Armstead - PA  <Vinson_Armstead at GMACM.COM> wrote:
>After making a change to the zone files on my master server I restart BIND [9.1.3]
>(kill  -HUP ???). I check my slave server it does not seem to have received
>the DNS NOTIFY sent from the master. The zone files on the secondary are
not
>updated and do not update until the TTL expires or I restart BIND (kill
>-HUP).

With the newer BIND 8.x releases you restart named via "ndc".
With BIND 9 you use rndc.
I have no idea whether "kill -HUP" will do what you expect it to do.
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