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From: Philip Reynolds <phil@redbrick.dcu.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] Serial number in hosts file
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Ray Dermody's [DERMODYR@ITCARLOW.IE] 20 lines of wisdom included:
> Hi All,
> The serial number in our hosts files on our DNS server has gone 
> corrupt e.g. 2002082999999999901 should be 20002082901.
> Its okay to set this back to todays date but I understand that our 
> secondary and terninary DNS servers will only update from the master 
> hosts file if the master host serial number is greater than the current 
> serial number in the hosts file.
> Is there any way I can reset this on the secondary and terninary DNS 
> servers?

Once you have the serial changed on the master DNS server, remove
the appropiate zone(s) on your slaves, and refresh your DNS servers.

Bind has a special case, if you set the serial to '0' I think. DNS &
Bind should have something on that.

-- 
  Philip Reynolds        
   RFC Networks          tel: 01 8832063
www.rfc-networks.ie      fax: 01 8832041

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