[PLUG] Automatic Slave updates for bind

[Josh Orchard]

> Note that if you aren't in control of your slave server, for instance
>  it's a secondary provided by your registrar, you can't force the
> slave to start the transfer.  You can only send the notify and wait
> for the secondary NS to initiate update.  This may take much longer
> than you'd like.
>
> If I recall correctly the secondary is allowed to defer requesting
> the update until the refresh time limit has elapsed.  If you're
> planning network changes and wish for your DNS updates to propagate
> more quickly cranking this value down in advance is one option for
> getting updates propagated more quickly.  Just remember to reset it to
> a reasonable value after your environment has stabilized.

So say that I control both master and slave. I do.  Now say I want to
add a new slave or have added new records to the master and want to
tell the slave to add them as well.  The only way I've found so far is
to go to the slave and add the record and then it will keep the
updates in sync.  There doesn't seem to be a way to have the master
tell the slave to add a new record.

Is this normal?  Or is this just a big timing issue and for some of my
none controlled slaves it will just take a while?

thanks,

Josh