failed NT4 zone transfers

[Danny Mayer]

At 10:52 AM 11/16/01, Barry Margolin wrote:
>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).

Right. I sent out a correction this morning.  In fact this problem is 
likely to be
that they got the 'year' incorrect and typed 2000 when they meant 2001.
The slave probably now has a larger serial number than the master.

         Danny