On 20/03/2020 11:15, William Edwards wrote: > Hi Simon! >> If you don't explicitly set the serial, then it should start at the >> current epoch time (ie seconds since 1/1/1970) which avoids the problem >> unless you average more than one new DHCP lease per second. > After setting 'auth-server', this behaviour has been 'fixed'. > Without 'auth-server': > -- > vlan5.hosts.cyberfusion.space. 600 IN SOA . . 1 1200 180 1209600 600 > -- > With 'auth-server': > -- > vlan5.hosts.cyberfusion.space. 600 IN SOA > vlan5.hosts.cyberfusion.space. hostmaster.vlan5.hosts.cyberfusion.space. > 1584702843 1200 180 1209600 600 > -- > So this seems like a combination of 1) possibly some room for improvement in > docs (there is little mention of serials there at all) and 2) working too > late at night. > William
The forthcoming 2.81 release errors in startup is auth-server is not set under these circumstances. http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=08933475abd0580cff747e3d1e0db3865207a200 Cheers, Simon. > > On 20/03/2020 08:18, William Edwards wrote: >> >> Op 20 mrt. 2020 om 00:39 heeft Simon Kelley <si...@thekelleys.org.uk >> <mailto:si...@thekelleys.org.uk>> het volgende geschreven: >> >>> On 19/03/2020 17:28, William Edwards wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Does dnsmasq increase SOA serial when adding a new DNS record after DHCP >>>> lease is requested? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> >>>> I am not sure because docs say '--auth-soa' allows for specifying serial. >>> >>> It does, but it's optional: dnsmasq will generate one for you. If you do >>> specify a serial, it will still get incremented after a new DHCP lease >>> is created. >> >> Thanks. >> >> I noticed that serial is reset back to 1 when dnsmasq is restarted. This >> would cause the serial to be lower on dnsmasq than its slaves after a >> restart, even when DHCP leases are handed out and DNS records are added. >> >> Is this intentional behaviour? >> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Simon. >>> >>>> >>>> Met vriendelijke groeten, >>>> >>>> William Edwards >>>> T. 040 - 711 44 96 >>>> E. wedwa...@cyberfusion.nl <mailto:wedwa...@cyberfusion.nl> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list >>>> Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk >>>> <mailto:Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk> >>>> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list >>> Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk >>> <mailto:Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk> >>> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list >> Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk >> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
