going from 1999.. serial to 2000.. in SOA

[Robert Chalmers]

Funny you should mention that. It happened to me the other day. I was
updating the named files, and I had to change the serial of course in the
file. It complained about the serial being invalid?

However, I went back in, had a look - fixed a missing "." at the end of a
line - which it hadn't complained about - put in a new serial with the
'date' command shell I use, and it started ok.
The error the first time was actually the missin period, but it told me the
serial was at fault!!!

all started well as I say once i fixed the dot. ????? figure?

bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cricket Liu" <cricket at acmebw.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: 18 January 2000 2:04
Subject: Re: going from 1999.. serial to 2000.. in SOA


> > I updated one of my db files and changed the serial in the SOA
> > from 1999112301 to 2000011601 and bind 8 complains about that
> > serial number.  I can't imagine why, as this seems to be way
> > below the 32 bit overflow and even the halfway point to the
> > overflow (2,147,508,647).
> >
> > Anyone know why it would have difficulty with this?
>
> What's the actual error message BIND is producing?  Are
> you sure it's complaining about the *size* of the number?
>
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