SOA serial rotation

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Sam Wilson wrote:
> Can anyone provide a current reference showing how to recover from a
> mistakenly high value of the SOA serial number?  I'm sure there used to
> be good web pages about it but I can't find them any more.  The RFC
> describing sequence space numbering doesn't actually give any examples
> of what it's useful for!
> 
> (It's for someone else.  Yes, I could write a description myself but it
> wouldn't be as good as descriptions I remember reading elsewhere.) 
> 
> Sam

RFC 1982 gives strong hints but doesn't spell it out simply.  Try:

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/serial.html
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/resetting_bind_serial_number.html

-- 
Joe Yao
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