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Re: Question about secondary zone updates...

From: listaccount@starionline.com
Date: Saturday, September 8, 2001
Time: 10:24:19 am

Okay, a little more technical than I expected, but I get the general idea.
So the question now becomes;

If indeed QDNS uses NOTIFY to "alert" the slave to new info, then why does
my slave server seem to not be updating quickly (not even after several
hours). Do I perhaps have a configuration problem?

Jeff J.
Starion Systems

>> What parameter of a primary (or is it secondary) zone record determines =
how
>> often the slave zone is updated?
>=20
> initial RFC=B4s use the last 1,2,3 fields in last 5 fields of the SOA recor=
d
> to (xxx 1 2 3 xxx) to define slave behaviour, where the 1 field tells the
> slave how often to request the SOA record from the master to check for
> incremented zone serial number.
>=20
> Polling was augmented with a later RFC which defined the DNS opcode for
> NOTIFY, where the master will send a NOTIFY packet to all a zone=B4s NS
> records, which then in turn so the SOA/serial number check.
>=20
>> What are the pros and cons of updating a secondary more often
>=20
> a slave pulling an SOA record from the master is not a burden.
>=20
>> , or why
>> wouldn't you want it to be somewhat instantaneous on a small number of
>> zones?
>=20
> the NOTIFY facility makes zone updates as close to instantaneous as possi=
ble.
>=20
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