SOA serial rotation

base60 nobody at whitehouse.com
Sun Dec 4 00:30:57 UTC 2005


Gregory Hicks 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.

Depends, I suppose.  I've used this up to Bind8 and it never caused
a problem for me.

> 
> If you bump the serial properly, then they will discard the info
> sooner.  Which is what you really want.

"Properly" doesn't matter after-the-fact.  I'm not being pissy, just
pointing out that once it's done, it's done and you clean up as best
as you can.



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