Configuring notify lists
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Configuring notify lists
Notify lists can be created and managed to provide a method for a master server for a zone (such as the primary server or another secondary server) to notify a list of secondary servers when the zone changes.
To create or manage a notify list, you can use the DNS console to add and remove servers by their IP addresses in the notify list for a zone. By default, the notify list is based on the authoritative servers for the zone as listed on the Name Servers tab.
Notes
For more information on how DNS notification works, see Understanding zones and zone transfer.
For more information on configuring and managing notify lists, see Create and manage a notify list for a zone.
You cannot configure a notify list for a stub zone.
By default, a DNS server running a Windows Server 2003 operating system will only allow a zone transfer to authoritative DNS servers listed in the name server (NS) resource records for the zone.