BIND 9 - force secondary to update/refresh from primary

netcat netcat at devnull.eridani.eol.ee
Tue Aug 5 13:36:57 UTC 2008


In article <g79jts$vtm$1 at sf1.isc.org>, atomic at people.net.au says...
> We will be upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9 on Windows 2000 Server, the 
> plan is to upgrade the secondary name server first and do the primary 
> later (not on the same day).
> 
> After upgrading the secondary, we want to make sure zone transfer from 
> the primary (BIND 8) still works, so we will be making changes to a test 
> zone in the primary name server (i.e. incrementing the serial number). 
> Instead of waiting for it to happen, is it possible to force the 
> secondary to update/refresh the zone without using rndc?

The primary will notify the secondary, itself, when you reload the 
changed zone. You don't have to force it or wait for it, unless you've 
gone and turned notify off in the options. 

rgds,
netcat


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