question on retry and notifications in v8.2.3

[Thomas Duterme]

Thanks Jim,

Why are SIGHUPs *bad* as a way to restarting named? 

TIA,
Thomas 

Sometime near Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:48:54AM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Duterme <thomas at madeforchina.com> writes:
> 
>     Thomas> If I update a master server and send a SIGHUP to named, it
>     Thomas> will automatically send out notify messages to the defined
>     Thomas> slaves after a few seconds.
> 
> Correct, but stop sending signals to the name server. Use ndc (BIND8)
> or rndc (BIND9) to manage the name server.
> 
>     Thomas> If so, then what is the point of the refresh value in the
>     Thomas> SOA?  A secondary name server would never have to use this
>     Thomas> since the master would send out notification on any
>     Thomas> changes, right?  Or is this something left in to make sure
>     Thomas> that the slave would update regardless of whether or not
>     Thomas> the master broadcast message was heard? 
> 
> Yes. Or if the slave server didn't support the NOTIFY protocol.
>