Re: [cobalt-users] RE: DNS SCript

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/5/00 9:59 AM, Thescripter@xxxxxxx at Thescripter@xxxxxxx wrote:

> $primary:$secondary:dns\@m2soft.com:10800:3600:604800:86400 -\n";
> 
> What is: 10800:3600:604800:86400  - that is the serial number. I belieive it
> needs to be dynamic or something??

This is the SOA record.

I would highly suggest picking up Bind/DNS from O'reily, which explains
everthing in detail.

Essentially they are the configurations for the Time To Live, etc.  There is
a serial number in there as well that determines weather the secondary
servers need to update their records from the master/primary DNS server.

-k