BIND problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9kcuh5$gge at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Simon Waters  <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>> 
>> In article <9ka6jp$2q1 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
>> Simon Waters  <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >However I don't have that much sympathy for computer
>> >administrators who when asked to give a 32 bit positive integer
>> >get it wrong.
>> 
>> You've never made a typo (accidentally inserting an extra digit) or
>> miscounted digits in a long number?  You must be the only one.
>
>No I never said that, indeed I clearly stated that I make lots
>of typos, but I don't consistently get it wrong, which would be
>needed to "screw lots of sites". 

I only know what I see, which is that these types of serial numbers show up
on a weekly basis.  And I only notice them when the customers are
correcting them back to proper values.  I've been thinking of writing a
script to scan all our secondary zone files for serial numbers that look
like the results of common overflows, but haven't gotten around to it.

>I'd also be concerned if data I entered in a file wasn't
>presented back to me as I'd entered it.

In the real world, most DNS administrators don't even check the log for
error messages, let alone do a dig to see if the results look like what
they typed.  If we didn't check things on our secondary servers, most of
our customers would never know when they messed up their primaries.  And
our customers are primarily Fortune 1000, universities, and government
agencies.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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