My zone serial number is messed up!

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> I hope someone can help. Somehow, I think due to a hasty edit by
> someone not very familiar with using vi, (OK it's me:) the serial
> number in one of my master zone files has been incremented to an
> enormous number. (Currently 12001012303) 
> 
> When I examine my secondaries, using nslookup, I find they think the
> serial number is 3411077711
> 
> What is going on here? I think perhaps I have overflowed the variable
> used to store the serial, and it is wrapping around.

	Correct.

> 
> In any case, my question is: Is there a mechanism by which I can
> change the serial to a more reasonable value ( like say 1:) and still
> get the secondaries to do a zone transfer.

	Just do it.  1 > 3411077711 using serial space arithmetic.

	Mark
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Craig Findlay
> 
> 
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