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Summary

Notify-to-soa or also-notify global options have no effect

BIND version used

BIND 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.11-Ubuntu (Extended Support Version) id:a375815

Steps to reproduce

Add notify-to-soa yes; or also-notify() option into Options{} clause. See attached config example.

What is the current bug behavior?

The SOA primary name server never gets notified.

What is the expected correct behavior?

SOA master should be notified like the rest.

Relevant configuration files

**Contents of /etc/default/bind9 **

OPTIONS="-f -t /var/named/run-root -c /etc/named.conf -4 -u bind -n 2"

Contents of /etc/named.conf

options {
        allow-recursion {
                localnets;
        };
                listen-on-v6 { any; };
        version "none";
        directory "/var";
        auth-nxdomain no;
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        also-notify { ns1.xxx.xxx; ns2.xxx.xxx; ns3.xxx.xxx; ns4.xxx.xxx;};
        #(or)
        notify-to-soa yes;
};

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

No errors in logs