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zrail on Dec 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How and why I run my own DNS servers

Not any technical issues, it was just more moving pieces than I want. BuddyNS is a fine service but having to force an update with an email seemed pretty hacky.

tom_fitzhenry on Dec 31, 2012 [–]

You can use DNS NOTIFY rather than sending an email. When the primary is updated, DNS NOTIFY will tell each secondary about the change.

DNS NOTIFY is standardised in: https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1996.txt

BIND 8+ supports it by default, according to http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch10_03.h...

There is a perl script to achieve the same thing in djbdns, according to http://www.fefe.de/djbdns/#notify (which joe_bleau alluded to).

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