Serial number question..

[Bruce Johnson]

Someone updated out name server and messed up the serial number on the primary; as a result our secondaries are not updating properly.

Primary:

bruces-Mac-Mini:~ johnson$ dig @elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu -t SOA +noall +answer pharmacy.arizona.edu
pharmacy.arizona.edu.	86404	IN	SOA	elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. wunz.elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. 1297117089 3600 120 1209600 86400


Secondaries:

bruces-Mac-Mini:~ johnson$ dig @dhbns1.pharmacy.arizona.edu -t SOA +noall +answer pharmacy.arizona.edu
pharmacy.arizona.edu.	86404	IN	SOA	elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. wunz.elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. 1762233707 3600 120 1209600 86400
bruces-Mac-Mini:~ johnson$ dig @ns-remote.arizona.edu -t SOA +noall +answer pharmacy.arizona.edu
pharmacy.arizona.edu.	86404	IN	SOA	elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. wunz.elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu. 1762233707 3600 120 1209600 86400

Is the fix here just setting the serial number on the primary to 1762233708 ?

The various things online I’ve found are all based on “you accidentally set the primary more than 2^32 ahead” so you have to do a bunch of modulo arithmetic...


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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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