serial-question

[Kevin Darcy]

RFC 1982.


- Kevin

"Futureweb St. Johann" wrote:

> hi,
>
> i read the thread 2 days back, but i am unsure about a
> serial thing:
>
> you wrote to set the serial to 2147483647
> and then you can reset it. why is that? is this the highest the
> serial could get?
>
> we have about a same problem, I want to transfer a lot of zones
> and a script will rewrite the files. no problem at that, and I could
> also set the serial to any higher nr. than before.
>
> but the new software managing the zones only uses the unix-time-stamp
> which is in our case always lower than the current serial.
>
> does it have to be higher or only different to the nr. before,
> or how long would the update take if the serial is lower.
>
> so the best solution would be to set the serial to the nr. above
> and if the software changes the serial to whatever nr. (unix time stamp),
> it doesn?t matter?
>
> thanks
> patrick neuner
>
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