[Pdns-users] How to config pdns to send notification to addres not in "IN NS" record.

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, at 07:54, Brian Candler via Pdns-users wrote:
> On 12/03/2024 11:40, Bino Oetomo wrote:
>> I run --> tcpdump -vv --interface eth1 port 53 at powerdns box , got 
>> no traffic indicating notification sent.
>> But when I restart the bind9 service at the slave, tcpdump shows some 
>> traffic to and from slave.
>>
>> So still IMHO my pdns box did not send any notification to slaves.
>
> OK, so next you said you "did some record editing ", how exactly did you 
> do that? Editing the zone files and restarting or reloading pdns? Via 
> the API? Something else?
>
> There's information about the bind backend, including its behavior 
> w.r.t. notifies, here:
>
> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/backends/bind.html
>
> In particular, note that restarting powerdns will *not* send out notifies.

For testing NOTIFY behavior, it is much simpler and more reliable to use 'pdns_control notify <zone>.'.