BIND 8.2.3 and serial 0/slave server question
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mon Mar 26 02:53:16 UTC 2001
It was a bug. Bugs get fixed. Please teach them how to
rollover the serical number in future as that works with
all but really old BIND 4 slaves.
Mark
> Does the old trick, that worked up at least up through BIND 8.1.2, of
> setting the zone serial number to 0 ("zero") to force a pull from slave
> servers still work?
>
> We are providing slave service for a number of our customers, and we
> have always told them to set the serial number to 0 ("zero") when they
> mucked up their zone files and needed to bring sanity back to their
> zones before we could slave the zones. However, of late, it seems that
> this function is not working, or possibly not working in the same way
> it once did. Has anyone else seen this? Am I totally off-base? Am I
> not waiting long enough for the slave servers to pick up the zones
> (though I have waited ~6 hours for one of the zones to be slaved)?
>
> Any assistance/insight that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
--
Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
More information about the bind-users
mailing list