notify failed ?

[Kevin Darcy]

Ole Braad-Sorensen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm running RH7.1 and I get a strange message in syslog:
>
> named[7445]: notify failed: not authoritative for notify zone
> (REFUSED)
>
> The message comes 3 times each hour, not matching any cron events!
>
> What's named trying to tell me :-)

It appears that someone is trying to NOTIFY your server for a zone for
which is not authoritative. Did you recently *stop* being a slave for
some zone or another? Maybe the NS records or "also-notify" for the zone
need to be update so as to remove your server.

Another possibility is that TCP is blocked so you haven't been able to
zone-transfer the zone for a while and it's expired.


- Kevin