question about serial numbers

[Craig Dupree]

Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

>         Perhaps you should read RFC 1982 rather than rattle off the
>         nonsence below.  It is quite possible to go from any serial
>         number to any other.  Sometimes it take a intemediate step
>         or two but it is always possible.  The only time when you have

I did read RFC 1982, and your C code is rather pretty.  You obviously know
more about the finer details; BUT I have to disagree.  First what's so
wrong with just doing some simple editing, file renaming, and SIGHUPing.
Heck with sed, and rsh you could probably write a script that automates
this for you.  Is BIND going to break if I SIGHUP it too many times?  Is
SAGE going to tear up my membership card, because I use a not to elegant 
a solution to the problem?  Will I die only to spend an
eternity with only copies of "DNS & BIND" to read.  I think not.

You question was how you fix a particular problem, and not about how you
can play games with the serial numbers.  Granted, your solution was
is best if 1) you have a secondary not under your control, and 2)
you either don't wan't to bother or you don't want to own up to the fact
that you goofed, or possibly just have too many secondary servers.   Also,
your solution depends on figuring out the magic numbers that makes it work,
and then waiting through all of those zone timeouts and transfers.

Who cares.  Both of these ideas are "DNS and BIND".  My only point
was that "Read the RFC" wasn't too insightful of an answer, and never
is.  Else why have either a book or the newsgroup?  The RFC's are
freely available, let's just all read them.

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