SOA serial rotation

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Fri Dec 2 11:57:51 UTC 2005


In article <dmnh80$1pol$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Gregory Hicks
<ghicks at cadence.com> wrote:

> > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> > From: base60 <nobody at whitehouse.com>
> > Subject: Re: SOA serial rotation
> > Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:12:54 GMT
> > 
> > Sam Wilson wrote:
> > > Can anyone provide a current reference showing how to recover from a
> > > mistakenly high value of the SOA serial number?
> > 
> > Change it to a zero, let it flush through and then reset.
> 
> But doing this causes problems with those servers elsewhere on the
> internet.  Serial numbers get out of whack and then require manual
> intervention.
> 
> If you bump the serial properly, then they will discard the info
> sooner.  Which is what you really want.

"DNS and BIND" seems to suggest this is a BIND special.  In my case it
might work since the master is djbdns and the slaves are BIND but it's
a hack.

Thanks,

Sam



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