Zone reload time after NOTIFY

[Scott, Casey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Eddings [mailto:eddingsk at apple.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:11 PM
> To: Scott, Casey; Barry Margolin; comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: RE: Zone reload time after NOTIFY
> 
> At 2:58 PM -0700 5/23/06, Scott, Casey wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org
> >> [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:58 PM
> >> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> >> Subject: Re: Zone reload time after NOTIFY
> >>
> >> In article <e4vk94$48s$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  "Scott, Casey" 
> >> <Casey.Scott at wizards.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a BIND machine configured as a secondary server 
> with 1 zone.
> >> > The zone can receive many DDNS update from Windows clients.
> >> The DDNS
> >> > updates occur on the primary server, which is Windows 2003. My 
> >> > question is that although the primary DNS server sends
> >> NOTIFY's to the
> >> > BIND server, the BIND server takes quite a while before it
> >> implements any of the changes.
> >> > I can not find any BIND config option that will effect the 
> >> > responsiveness of BIND to NOTIFY's. I don't want to 
> force BIND to 
> >> > reload the zone for every NOTIFY, but I would like to have some 
> >> > control over the amount of time taken to implement the
> >> changes in the zone.
> >>
> >> What is "quite a while"?  BIND waits a random amount of time, to 
> >> avoid a thundering herd problem if all the slaves tried to 
> transfer 
> >> immediately.
> >> But this shouldn't be much more than a minute, I think.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> >> Arlington, MA
> >> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> >> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the 
> group ***
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Its been between 15-30 minutes each time. BIND is installed 
> from RPM, 
> >and running on a RHEL 4 machine.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Casey
> 
> Have you verified that the NOTIFY is being received on the 
> slaves?  Sound's like they're not getting through and normal 
> refresh cycle is taking care of the updates.
> 
> 
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Yes, I watch the NOTIFY's being logged by the slaves. They come 
in near-realtime of any changes to the zone. The refresh value is 
3hr, so the updates are occurring more frequently than refresh 
would allow for.