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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