Somewhat OT: SOA serial wraparound and Windows DNS Server slaves

[Chris Thompson]

This is strictly off-topic for bind-users, but if (like us) you are in
the unfortunate position of having many Windows DNS Server instances
stealth slaving your zones, and are planning a wrap around increase 
of your SOA serial numbers, all nicely in accordance with RFC 1982
(13 years old, for ${DEITY?}'s sake) ... take a step back.

As late as Windows 2003 R2, and maybe later, they just can't cope,
and go into a state of trying to refetch the zone at embarassingly
short intervals. One has to do the (GUI! aargh) equivalent of BIND's
"rndc retransfer" operation on them to sort this out.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk