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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I'm configuring a new anycast dns authoritative infrastructure, composed by:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- two Hidden Master with PowerDNS 4.5.0 with MySql backend<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- four Authoritative public nameserver (NSD 4.2.4/ Knot 3.0.8)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>At the moment the two HMs are configured as secondary in the pdns.conf, they download (via AXFR/IXFR) the zones from the old dns auth infrastructure and they update the four slave nameservers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>At the moment the slave nameservers don't announce yet the service ip address specified in the glue record.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Any changes on the zones on the old dns nameservers are correctly delivered to the HMs and then to the slave nameservers (thanks to secondary-do-renotify globally enabled and also-notify that specifies the unicast ip addresses of the four slave nameservers).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>But In this scenario I'm experimenting an unclear behavior of the "also-notify" configuration parameter in pdns.conf, when i modify/add a RR on a test zone that is master on the HMs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In particular the test is the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- I add the domain example.com as master on the two HM, as slave on the four slave nameservers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- I modify/add one RR on the example.com on the two HMs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I'm expecting that all 4 nameservers will receive on their unicast-ip address the notification and they download via ixfr those changes (thanks to also-notify configuration parameter), but pdns on both HMs doesn't send any notification.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In this case I force the notification with the following command launched from one of the HM:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>pdns_control notify example.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Is it a normal behavior of also-notify or does it depends by the configuration of the HMs as secondary (so the notifications will be correctly generated when I’ll reconfigure the HMs as primary)? Otherwise, what did I forget in the pdns.conf?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks in advance for any help<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Angelo<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>