failed NT4 zone transfers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9t3vn4$qqr at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Danny Mayer  <mayer at gis.net> wrote:
>
>At 10:52 AM 11/16/01, Barry Margolin wrote:
>>In article <9t25fc$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.

But that's not the error message that's logged when that happens.  In that
case the log message would be:

Zone "vame.net" (IN) SOA serial# (2000102501) rcvd from [<ip address>] is < ours (<serial#>)

"Err/TO getting serial#" means that it didn't get any response at all to
the SOA query ("Err/TO" is short for "Error or timeout").

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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