Corrupt SOA serial number
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Fri Aug 13 17:26:45 UTC 1999
Set serial number to 0.
This will cause secondaries to update.
For information on serial numbers, check the book DNS and BIND
Michael
Greg Ifase wrote:
>
> 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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