BIND Zone XFER Problems

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Thu Mar 2 17:57:01 UTC 2000


I have never seen 0's in front of the serial number in the SOA.
Was the serial number on the secondary higher than the serial number on
the primary?

Michael Voight
Cisco TAC

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
> At 04:24 01.03.00 +0000, Mike Dimmick wrote:
> >I tried a diff on the two files and the only significant difference was
> >in the SOA: old (non-working) serial was 00021010, new (working) serial
> >2000021010.  Perhaps some piece of software doesn't like very small
> >serial numbers?
> 
> No, but some piece of software doesn't like decreasing serial numbers.
> Could it be that serial once was 99xxxxxx before that?
> 
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> Tilman Schmidt          E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt at sema.de (office)
> Sema Group Koeln, Germany       tilman at schmidt.bn.uunet.de (private)



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