failed NT4 zone transfers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9t25fc$bnv at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Danny Mayer  <mayer at gis.net> wrote:
>
>At 06:23 PM 11/15/01, Kimberly O'Brien/OTT/OTI wrote:
>>15-Nov-2001 17:51:14.000 xfer-in: Err/TO getting serial# for "vame.net"
>>15-Nov-2001 18:10:14.000 xfer-in: Err/TO getting serial# for "vame.net"
>>
>>In addition, here's the zone file from the master:
>>
>>$ORIGIN vame.net.
>>$TTL    24h
>>@       24h IN SOA      bapa.oti.com. infott.oti.com. (
>>                         2000102501      ;Serial
>>                         3h              ;Refresh
>>                         1h              ;Retry
>>                         7d              ;Expire
>>                         3h )            ;NXDOMAIN cache TTL
>>
>>                 IN NS   bapa.oti.com.
>>                 IN NS   mumu.oti.com.
>>
>>vame.net.        IN MX            10 www.oti.com.
>>www                IN CNAME  www.oti.com.
>
>The serial number is too big.  There are 3 0's in the 'year'. This makes 
>the serial
>number need more than 32 bits which is invalid.

No it isn't.  32 bits allows serial numbers up to 4294967295, i.e. up to a
10-digit number starting with 0-4.  That serial number is exactly 10 digits
long.  The year in it is 2000 (the 1 is the beginning of the month 10).

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