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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Lasman wrote:

> Actually pretty easily: on your master nameserver you just change the
> serial number to "0" for the domain or domains you want to change.  Then
> restart your master nameserver.
> 
> Wait until all slave servers have gotten the domains with the "0" in
> them.
> 
> Then change the serial number to whatever you want it to be, and restart
> the master nameserver again.

Sorry, but I left out an important caveat here: this only works with
BIND versions 4.9 and later.

Otherwise you need to fix the serial number on the master, then on each
slave, stop the server, remove all the zone files, and restart the
server (the nameserver that is, not the whole machine).

Jeff
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