Re: [ILUG] Serial number in hosts file

From: Philip Reynolds (phil at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Mon 02 Sep 2002 - 11:57:24 IST


Ray Dermody's [DERMODYR at domain ITCARLOW.IE] 20 lines of wisdom included:
> Hi All,
> The serial number in our hosts files on our DNS server has gone
> corrupt e.g. 2002082999999999901 should be 20002082901.
> Its okay to set this back to todays date but I understand that our
> secondary and terninary DNS servers will only update from the master
> hosts file if the master host serial number is greater than the current
> serial number in the hosts file.
> Is there any way I can reset this on the secondary and terninary DNS
> servers?

Once you have the serial changed on the master DNS server, remove
the appropiate zone(s) on your slaves, and refresh your DNS servers.

Bind has a special case, if you set the serial to '0' I think. DNS &
Bind should have something on that.

-- 
  Philip Reynolds        
   RFC Networks          tel: 01 8832063
www.rfc-networks.ie      fax: 01 8832041


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