question about serial numbers

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Craig Dupree wrote:
> 
> > > DNS will care if you roll over from "99123101" to "00010101".
> > 
> > It won't when I restart the daemon, minutes after I make this change.  
> 
> If you propagate zones to secondaries, and then decrement the serial
> number on the master, updates to those secondaries will not occur no
> matter how many times you restart the daemon. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
	Not strictly correct.  They won't propogate until the zone on the
	secondary expires provided the server correctly implements this
	part of the RFC (current BIND 8's do).

	Mark
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