My zone serial number is messed up!

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jan 25 00:05:53 UTC 2001


Barry Margolin wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:55:26 +0000
>    From: Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>
>
>    So instead of getting customers to read page so-and-so of a book,
>    point them at the RFC that documents Serial Number Arithmetic.
>
> Yeah, that works real well with Microsoft weenies.

Okay, then, why don't you just a write a little CGI program that does
the calculation and then you could mail a hyperlink to the Microsoft
weenies -- they just enter the current serial number and it tells them
what it should be changed to? Heck, the CGI could, given the name of the
affected zone, even *look*up* the current SOA of the zone (via the
Net::DNS Perl module or whatever) and figure out what it needs to be
changed to in order to effect a "reset".


- Kevin





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