nsupdate for serial number!

[Pete Ehlke]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:59:06AM +0000, those who know me have no need of my name wrote:
> 
> in comp.protocols.dns.bind i read:
> 
> >   I am running BIND 8.3.3 on solaris 8. I have tried nsupdate, the
> >  command line tool to make dynamic updates to the zone data files.
> >  It works fine but it looks like it does not change the date/month
> >  values in serial number.
> 
> named increments the serial number whenever an update (batch) is applied.

BIND9 does that. BIND8, which the user is running, increments the serial
number every 100 updates or five minutes, whichever comes first, unless
this behaviour has been modified very recently.

-P.