Re: [cobalt-users] Raq5 - Serial Number Problem

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Jon wrote:
> Our Raq5 has taken over the dns management from our old raq4. I
> manually added the domains to the control panel adn then started
> named. Our serial number is very low 1068568931 whereas before it
> was 2003102423 and this is causing problems with updating on our
> ISP providers secondary nameserver who has a higher serial number
> than ourselves.
>
> In other words the ISP's secondary thinks that as it has the
> higher serial number, that it is up to date, and changes made on
> our primary nameserver are ignored.

We deleteted all the zone files on the slave nameserver, this
will allow the files to be transfered with the 'sun' serial numbers.
See if you cna get your ISP to do that!


> Two questions. Why is the raq5 not using the preferred format for
> seriali.e YYYYMMDDNN?  (date on our raq5 is 14th Nov 2003)

  One word "SUN"

> How can I make a change to the serial without it being
> overwritten by the GUI?

AFAIK you can't.

Gerald
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