On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:31:16AM -0600, Lance Levsen wrote:
> 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.
Gerald got it right, it is an number that increases every time the zone
changes. The date + 2 digits came was a recommendation for BIND config
documentation. I'm not sure if it made it into the RFC's which are
written as if their are as-built documentation for BIND.
Tinydns will automatically take care of that if you let it.
Received on Fri Oct 27 13:28:46 2006
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