[Unbound-users] NOTIFY implementation to unbound

[Ondřej Surý]

Or you can flush cache <n>-times :), which is probably not the thing
you want to do.

(where n is number of slaves)

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 19:30, Aaron Hopkins <lists at die.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
>> The key concept here is that notify says something has changed with the
>> given zone.
>
> It means "whoever sent you the NOTIFY has updated data for this zone".
> However, unbound won't just query whoever sent it the NOTIFY; it will query
> any authoritative server, many of which probably have stale data since they
> received NOTIFY at the same time as unbound and have more work to do before
> they are updated.
>
> Unbound would either have to limit itself to only querying the server that
> sent the NOTIFY for that zone or to query SOA serial numbers and see which
> authoritatives are up-to-date.
>
> Or you can require the unbound admin to make sure that any time any
> authoritative server that is updated sends a NOTIFY to all instances of
> unbound.  This isn't feasible in many topologies, and is particularly
> error-prone.
>
> None of these is "simple".
>
>                                    -- Aaron
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