also-notify question

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Dickenson <mbel44 at dial.pipex.net> writes:

    Toby> Using bind 8.2.3, it appears that my master is not
    Toby> automatically sending NOTIFY messages to the secondary name
    Toby> servers listed in NS records, as I expected it to. It
    Toby> happily sends them to the stealth secondaries listed in
    Toby> also-notify, and it sends them to the main secondaries if I
    Toby> add them to allow-notify too.

Do the targets of the NS records exist as A records? Maybe your server
can't send them NOTIFYs because it can't resolve their IP addresses?