Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Serial Numbers

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jens-Peter Otto wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:41:00 -0000, Overall, Matthew (LNG-MDHUK) wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help me out with this - I have taken on a domain name with a very
> > high serial number - creating the site on my RAQ gives a much lower serial number
> > - how do I change the RAQ to use a higher number or will I have to wait for the
> > old name record to expire fully?
>
> according to O'Reillys "DNS and BIND" you should set your serial to "0", which causes the clients to synchronize that zone (if the client uses at least version 4.9 of bind).
>
> You will have to do that manually with an editor in the corresponding /etc/named/pri.domainname.com and restart bind via "/etc/rc.d/init./named restart" (maybe a reload is sufficient as well).
>
> After the secondary NS synchronized you can let the cobalt rewrite the config with it's own serial# by changing something in the nameserver settings in the GUI (or by calling /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi manually from the command line).
>

IIRC setting the serial number to 0 on the master no longer works in
recent bind versions.

Gerald
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