Dave Hall writes:
> 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.
RFC 1912 notes it as being the "recommended syntax".
Later...
Greg Oster
Received on Fri Oct 27 13:36:18 2006
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