To create and manage a notify list for a zone

1. Open DNS
2. In the console tree, click the applicable zone.

   Where?

   • DNS
   • applicable DNS server
   • Forward Lookup Zones (or Reverse Lookup Zones)
   • applicable zone
3. On the Action menu, click Properties.
4. Click the Zone Transfers tab.
5. Click Notify.
6. Verify that the Automatically notify check box is checked.
7. Select the method to be used for creating a list for notifying other DNS servers when changes to the zone occur. Your options are:
   1. Use the default, Servers listed on the Name Servers tab, to permit only those servers that appear by IP address on the Name Servers tab to be included in the notify list.
   2. Select The following servers if you want to specify a different notify list to be used instead.
8. If you selected The following servers in the previous step, add or remove server IP addresses to form the notify list as needed:
   • To add a server to the notify list, type its IP address in the IP address field and click Add.
   • To remove a server from the notify list, click the server IP address in the list box and click Remove.

 Note

• To open DNS, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DNS.
• Changes to the notify list properties are only available on primary zones. For secondary zones, these properties are read-only. DNS Notify is an RFC-compliant extension of the DNS standard defined in RFC 1996, "A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes."

Understanding zones and zone transfer