On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Nicholas J Leon wrote: > Recently I upgraded to BIND9 (like probably 1/2 the populartion, the other > went to 8.2.3). Anyway, everything seems to work fine except for a series of > error messages I receive every hour or so. > > /usr/local/bind9/sbin/named[4570]: notify failed: not authoritative for > notify zone (REFUSED) > > Now, I can guess that this would mean that some zone couldn't send out (or > receive) notify requests because named doesn't think I'm authoritative.... > right? I believe what this means is that another DNS server is sending you NOTIFY messages for some zone (say foo.com), but your server doesn't believe that the notifier (source address of the notify message) is authoritative for foo.com. Probably what this means is that the administrator of the other DNS server has configured it to be a master server for foo.com that you're also a master for, or that you don't have foo.com configured as a locally-stored zone at all. It may also mean that you're an authoritative slave for foo.com, but you've listed a different IP address for the master than the IP address trying to NOTIFY you. I'm not sure how to diagnose this; maybe cranking up the debugging would give you more information? -Nathan -- +-------------------+---------------------+------------------------+ | Nathan Lutchansky | lutchann@litech.org | Lithium Technologies | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's | | business on earth... I like a state of continual becoming, | | with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
