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[Brad Knowles]

At 6:32 PM -0400 7/6/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>>          Uh, yes.  Every change to the zone requires a change to the
>>  serial number.
>
>  Sigh. I just went through this on namedroppers. To summarize, although it was
>  clearly *intended* for the SOA.SERIAL to be incremented for every change to a
>  zone, there is apparently nowhere in the RFC's where this is explicitly
>  *mandated*, except in the context of describing optional features like
>  AXFR/IXFR or Dynamic Update.

	And I recently went through this issue with Paul Vixie.  I 
distinctly recall him saying that the serial number needed to be 
updated with every change to the zone, regardless of what the RFCs 
might say.

	When you want the complete proper answer, going to the documents 
written by the experts is only the next-best thing to going directly 
to the experts themselves.


	I stand by my original statement -- every change to the zone 
requires a change to the serial number.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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