question about serial numbers

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jun 25 16:56:35 UTC 1999


In article <000501bebf2a$a264cfc0$52027981 at arroyo.nm.org>,
Edward L. May II <may at technet.nm.org> wrote:
>In past postings, which I wish I could remember, there is a number that you
>can set your serial number to, which you can then start numbering over.  It
>was in past messages, if someone doesn't have or won't re-share that
>knowledge, it should be in the archives.

If the secondary server is running BIND 4.9 or newer, that obscure number
is 0.

And to make it extra hard for people to figure this out, the entire answer
to how to deal with messing up the serial number is in the DNS&BIND book.

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