Split view - differing SOA serial number

John Horne john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Thu Jul 8 14:01:18 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:34 -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
> On 7/8/2010 7:26 AM, John Horne wrote:
> 
> > However, when checking the SOA serial number of our reverse zone we are
> > seeing different values depending on whether we are inside or outside of
> > the campus. This zone is maintained internally by MS Windows servers,
> > and so our main servers (141.163.1.250 and 141.163.177.1) act as slaves.
> 
> [..]
> 
> > Both views use the same zone file (which currently contains 3330257 as
> > the serial number), and the zone is configured to use a single master.
> > If I use rndc to reload the zone in both views, then nothing changes. If
> > I stop and restart the whole named service, then both views have the
> > same serial number. Why doesn't a reload cause the zone serial number to
> > be updated from the file copy of the zone?
> 
> You need to specify different "file" locations for each of the slaved
> zones (even if the data is the same) in each view.
> 
Does that apply for master zones which are common (i.e. the same data)
to both views as well?



John.

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