excessive notify traffic (8.2.3)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	What errors are you logging.  A NOTIFY is triggered by loading
	the zone or the heartbeat timer going off and the zone being
	a dialup zone.

	My bet is that you have lots of expired children of the zones
	in question or there is a load failures on a child zone causing
	the server to reload the parent zone.

	Mark
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:30 AM 3/6/2001 -0600, Craig R. Bina wrote:
> >
> >I recently migrated our DNS from an old SunOS box to a new
> >Debian box.  All seems to work fine, except that the primary
> >sends out NOTIFY messages about every 10 seconds for the 3
> >zones for which it is master.  Any ideas what might be wrong?
> 
> I had the same experience upgrading to 8.2.3.  If I had two servers, a maste
> r and a slave, and they both ran 8.2.3, the notify traffic eventually died o
> ff.
> 
> If I had some offsite slaves, another master where the data was manually syn
> ched, etc., the notify traffic just kept on coming.  If there was a server w
> hich wasn't taking the notifies and hadn't yet gotten a matching serial but 
> which was responding to the notifies it seems to triggernever ending notifie
> s.  But even when serials matched, there would still be notifys.
> 
> This got to the point where there were thousands and thousands of logged mes
> sages regarding notify.
> 
> Something is seriously wrong with notify, what I did was set "notify no" in 
> the affected domains.
> 
> If there is a reason for the notifies, like some soft of mismatch triggering
>  another notify cycle, the messages don't give the information you need to f
> ix it.
> 
> I consider this a serious problem.  I wish I knew what to do about it.
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