BIND 8's NOTIFY feature: how do masters know?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm setting up two nameservers based on BIND version 8. I am reading
> O'Reilly's "DNS & BIND" as a help. I read about BIND's NOTIFY feature.
> I wonder, how do the master name servers know which (slave) name
> servers to notify when zone information has been changed?

	They just notify all the namesevers in the NS records for
	the zone.  For servers not listed in the NS records see
	also-notify.

	Mark
> 
> Thankx,
> 
> Wout
> 
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