chaotic serial numbers

[Michael Kjorling]

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Not as far as I can remember. I think you were supposed to set the
least significant bit (bit 31 counting from the right) - that would
mean adding 2147483648 to the serial. Beware - it could be 2147483647
as well - I don't remember that to 100%. Then when thee zone has
propagated, reset the SOA serial.

This was mentioned in some year 2000 conformance document.

I bet it has to do with the fact that the sign bit (quite
conviniently, bit 31 as in 31..0) is supposed to be ignored, but I
don't know the exact mechanisms behind it.


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 26 2001 10:05 -0000, ns at linuxplanet.nu wrote:

> I read somewhere that you could synchronise other slave server by making the
> serial number on the authoritative master name server zero and then
> incrementing the number after the TTL expires.  Is that it?

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