Notifies not making it

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a3rm88$a5l at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Duke <thisis at bogus.com> wrote:
>What port does a notify get sent through?  My slave is behind a
>firewall and is not getting notifies from primary.

Notifies are sent using the normal DNS protocol, which sends to port 53.

>Both servers are running BIND 9.2.0;  slave is behind a firewall,
>primary isn't.  On the firewall I am forwarding tcp & udp ports 53 to
>the slave.

That should do it.

>I am forced to do a `rndc refresh domain.com´ to get the the slave to
>update after making a change on the primary.  The primary says it's
>sending out notifies in syslog, so I'm thinking it's going out on a
>diff. port?

Check your firewall's log to see if it's blocking anything from the master
to the slave.

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