Different signed serial numbers

[Alessandro Vesely]

On Thu 25/Sep/2025 02:34:01 +0200 Mark Andrews wrote:
>> On 24 Sep 2025, at 19:36, Alessandro Vesely <vesely at tana.it> wrote:
>> 
>> [...]  I assume signed serials have definitely disqualified this synchronization checking technique.  Are there any alternatives?
> 
> Using inline-signing is a *choice*.  Named will happily sign a zone without using it.  It is 
> there for those that want to continue to use a text editor for updating the zone content.  One 
> can choose not to use it and to use rndc freeze/thaw when updating the zone file (not recommended) 
> or to use nsupdate to update the zone content (recommended).  Yes, you have to learn how to use a 
> new tool.  It’s not particularly hard.


Using nsupdate I'd loose the inordinate amount of comments I maintain in the 
zone files.  I edit them so infrequently that I need notes to recall the 
reasons and the pitfalls of those settings.


Best
Ale
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