Use of "notify" and "also-notify"

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:36:34PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> We are in the process of transitioning our master DNS servers to another 
> hosting provider.
> 
> In preparation for that, I'm having them begin secondary transfers from 
> our internal master server.
> 
> It  occurred to me that during this time, I do NOT want the server to 
> send notifies to our current (soon to be old) DNS servers (at the other 
> provider), but we DO want updates to go to the new array.
> 
> We are using views, BIND-9.
> 
> Can I do this:
> 
>         notify no;
>         also-notify { dns-slaves; };
> 
> in the view.  Or is it more proper to place "notify no;" in the global 
> options section.


In current versions of BIND 9, you must do:

	notify explicit;
	also-notify { dns-slaves; };

I am not checking when this started, get the latest version.  ;-)

-- 
Joe Yao
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