Corrupt SOA serial number

Greg Ifase gifas at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 13 02:12:23 UTC 1999


A domain status report from this country's NIC currently shows the following 
information for the domain myproblem.com (I am using an alias for the company 
name here). 

SOA record:
myproblem.com start of authority	problem.com hostmaster.problem.com(
			-1484025479	;serial (version)
			21600	;refresh period
			3600	;retry refresh this often
			3600000	;expiration period
			43200	;minimum TTL
			)
The SOA serial number is invalid. I believe this situation arose because at one 
stage a typographic error was made when the SOA serial number on the zone file 
was updated and an extra digit was added. Instead of the serial being 
1999022501, it was typed as 19990225101.  The eleventh digit appears to have 
resulted in the corrupt serial number appearing. This error has been rectified 
on the local dns but any subsequent changes are not being picked up. Can an 
update be "forced" to rectify the situation at some level within the DNS 
delegation structure.

TIA




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