NOTIFY and the Microsoft DNS Server.

Answered Monday, November 05, 2001

> While I realize Windows 2000 DNS is not BIND, I manage a mixture of
> systems and I can't seem to get the Windows 2000 DNS NOTIFY function to
> work.
>
> On my HP-UX internal root servers, I keep a copy of all the zones from
> all servers in the company. When I look through the system log, I can
> see "rcvd NOTIFY" messages originating from a number of those servers,
> but I never see a NOTIFY indication from any master Windows 2000 DNS
> server. I've checked and unchecked whatever boxes Microsoft has made
> available, but I never see a NOTIFY.
>
> Do you have any experience with that problem? Are you aware of any way
> to make it work?

There's actually a window the administrators of your Microsoft DNS Servers should check to make sure they've configured NOTIFY correctly. They need to highlight the domain name of a zone in the admin interface, select Action->Properties, then choose the Zone Transfers tab of the zone properties window. Then select the Notify... button and make sure :Automatically notify:" is checked. If it's checked, either "Servers listed on the Name Servers tab" should be checked, and the name server you want notified should be listed on that tab, or "The following servers" should be checked, and your name server's IP address should be listed, along with the others you want notified, in the list box below.

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