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

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Brian Watters wrote:

> 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 ..

i Really don't think you want to do that -/

The purpose of serial numbers is so other nameservers can check against
yours, setting them to very low numbers has interesting side effects, as
does making them smaller than they used to be...(remember you are gonna
increment them for new changes)

They should just have a number representing the date...plus a change
count...unless you've changed them a few hundred times in one day -/

Why do you need them to be in sync with other nameservers? are you running
multiple masters instead of master/slave? nasty ;0

gsh