My zone serial number is messed up!

[Mathias Körber]

> Yes, you can change the serial number of the master to 1, then=20
> manually do a
> zone transfer from all of the secondaries, just make sure you use the =
-s 0
> option when doing the named-xfer.

He could actually directly set it to the desired value in this case,
no need to go to 1 first, but
these will only work *if he had access to the secondaries*, ie he=20
can run named-xfer on them, restart the nameserver etc.

Without that, he will need the wraparound described in the DNS book.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Craig Findlay
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:42 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: My zone serial number is messed up!
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> I hope someone can help. Somehow, I think due to a hasty edit by
> someone not very familiar with using vi, (OK it's me:) the serial
> number in one of my master zone files has been incremented to an
> enormous number. (Currently 12001012303)
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> When I examine my secondaries, using nslookup, I find they think the
> serial number is 3411077711
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> What is going on here? I think perhaps I have overflowed the variable
> used to store the serial, and it is wrapping around.
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> In any case, my question is: Is there a mechanism by which I can
> change the serial to a more reasonable value ( like say 1:) and still
> get the secondaries to do a zone transfer.
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> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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> Craig Findlay
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