Re: Dig and SOA record

From: Lance Levsen <lance_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Fri Oct 27 2006 - 11:31:16 CST

Steven Kurylo wrote:

> I've never heard the serial number refered to as the set date before.
>
I don't really know where it came from, but I picked that up in
O'Reilly's DNS and Bind (Grasshopper).

It's so the slaves know a zone file has been updated. It has to be
incremented when the zone file is changed and the easiest way is with a
reverse date + two digits.

Cheers,
lance 

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