question about serial numbers

[may at nm.net]

Setting to "0" only works, if you restart (stop and start) BIND, and the
secondaries for the zone are restarted as well.  For the original message
poster, PG 126-127 in DNS & BIND 2nd edition explains a way to do it,
without all that trouble.  PG 136-138 in the 3rd edition.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 10:57 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
Subject: Re: question about serial numbers


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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