Sorry I should have made it clearer that the notifier should only be shuffled to the top of the list if it is a defined primary for said zone.
I.e An IP on the notify-from list, but not a configured primary wouldn't be in the list of primaries for that zone so would not be shuffled to the top of the list. Anand has done a better job at describing this function in other software than my attempts Paul On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, 17:16 Grant Taylor via bind-users, < bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thank you for explaining. > > On 3/10/23 12:21 AM, Paul Stead wrote: > > Imagine that 1.1.1.1 has lost network connectivity recently. A notify > > comes from 2.2.2.2 - if I understand correctly Bind will try 1.1.1.1 > > first, time out and then try 2.2.2.2 - even though we know given the > > situation that 2.2.2.2 has the latest copy of the zone we want. > > I guess what I don't understand is why it's a problem for BIND to follow > the configuration that's on the system where it's running. > > N.B. I am quite certain that I've sent notifications from a system that > wasn't a DNS server before. I don't remember if it was dig or something > else. > > I only see a loose suggestion that BIND can do a zone transfer from the > system that it received notifications from. > > I could see having a hierarchy with multiple public secondaries which > transfer from the hidden private mname as well as multiple public > tertiaries which transfer from the secondaries and configuring the > hidden private mname to send notifications to all servers. > > Perhaps the larger spirit of this thread is if that association can be > made hard or not. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > -- > Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support > subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more > information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >
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