RE: [cobalt-users] Reset serial Numbers in DNS to 1??

[Brandon Wheaton <brandonw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Watters [mailto:brwatters@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> How does one reset the serial numbers in the DNS of the RaQ3 
> ?? the serial numbers have gotten completely out of hand and 
> I need to reset them to 1 so that they will sync with the reset 
> of our DNS servers .. HELP ..
> 

Hi. 

With BIND 8 all you have to do it delete your secondary record, 
change the serial number to what you want in your primary record, 
then do ndc reload on both servers (/etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop / 
start if it's stubborn).  I have not installed BIND 9, but I expect
the procedure to be the same as with BIND 8.

BIND 4, however requires a bit of VooDoo that I won't go into 
here.  Check out O'Reilly's DNS & BIND for further information.

Take care.
Brandon Wheaton
UNIX Systems Engineer 
ValiCert, Inc.
1215 Terra Bella Ave. 
Mountain View, CA 94043 
650.280.UNIX 

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