excuse the pun - not really sure if this is necessary - but I want all NOTIFY from my primary name server to appear as though it's coming from the server's primary IP address (as in eth0) rather than ppp0 which is currently happening. the problem is that I'm seeing this in the secondary server's log files: Jun 20 12:33:01 secserver named[520]: rcvd NOTIFY(domain.com.au, IN, SOA) from [primary.name.server.ppp0.address].2079 Jun 20 12:33:01 secserver named[520]: NOTIFY(SOA) from non-master server (zone domain.com.au), from [primary.name.server.ppp0.address].2079 as I have the secondary expecting the notify from: primary.name.server.eth0.address I can't just change them to expect NOTIFY from primary.name.server.ppp0.address because I don't know for sure that the ppp link will always be running off of the same box as our primary DNS server. am I mad or is there a way to change this? I have looked at man named.conf but could only find reference to binding LISTEN to specific ports. TIA. dan. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.