At 09:05 AM 1/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > IIRC setting the serial number to 0 on the master no longer works in > > recent bind versions. > > Shouldn't the serial number be done as the date +?? There can be a problem in bind, if the slave zone's serial number is lower than the master the slave will never update.
Other way around ... is the slave has a lower serial number than the master, it knows it needs to update the zone. If the slave has a HIGHER serial number than the master, it will think it has a newer version of the data, and keep that until TTL expires.