Re: [cobalt-users] Updating SOA serial number

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 04:30, Graham Scanlan wrote:
> Two points
>
> One
> When checking the dns setup I found that the soa serial number does not
> conform to RFC1912 2.2 YYYYMMDDnn. How do I change this?

Yes, there is a controversary over serial numbers, sometime in the distant 
future yymmddnn will wrap, then all hell breaks loose. I guess Sun is trying 
to fix it.

> More importantly I need to update this serial number (nn) for dns changes.

Only if you do them manually! (I do, the DNS GUI is slow as molasses)

> I have looked around the soa records but cannot find this serial number.

It's mot in the GUI, it's generated by a script

Try something like this to see the serial number
dig host.domain.tld SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com.           1D IN SOA       host.nameserver.tld. 
admin.fsn1.frontstreetnetworks.net. (
                                        2003042501      ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        1H              ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum

or vi /etc/named/db.host.domain.tld

Gerald
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