SOA serial rotation
base60
nobody at whitehouse.com
Sun Dec 4 00:30:57 UTC 2005
Gregory Hicks wrote:
>>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
>>From: base60 <nobody at whitehouse.com>
>>Subject: Re: SOA serial rotation
>>Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:12:54 GMT
>>
>>Sam Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone provide a current reference showing how to recover from a
>>>mistakenly high value of the SOA serial number?
>>
>>Change it to a zero, let it flush through and then reset.
>
>
> But doing this causes problems with those servers elsewhere on the
> internet. Serial numbers get out of whack and then require manual
> intervention.
Depends, I suppose. I've used this up to Bind8 and it never caused
a problem for me.
>
> If you bump the serial properly, then they will discard the info
> sooner. Which is what you really want.
"Properly" doesn't matter after-the-fact. I'm not being pissy, just
pointing out that once it's done, it's done and you clean up as best
as you can.
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