BIND 8.2.3: Slave sending notifies

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Ginsberg <rainer.ginsberg at de.bosch.com> writes:

    Rainer> after upgrading to BIND 8.2.3 (on Solaris), I see the
    Rainer> nameserver sending notifies for slave zones. What is that
    Rainer> good for?

Informing all the other name servers listed in the zone's NS
records. RFC1996 says that any authoritative server for a zone can
send NOTIFYs, not just the zone's primary master.