Re: Force DNS zonetransfer regardless of serial ?

2001-08-15 Thread Marcel Hicking
The whole process of DNS updates is fully automated. Certainly, under _normal_ circumstances the problem should not accure at all and I know all the implications that would cause. But I know _definitly_ that I want to use the primary's information ;-) Deleting the db file would of course be the u

Re: Force DNS zonetransfer regardless of serial ?

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Marcel, The O'Reilly book on DNS and BIND outlines a way to "roll over" your serial number on the master and force the slaves to reload. That may be what you're looking for. The simplest is, of course, to delete the db file on the slave server(s), but I'm guessing your probelem is that you don't

Force DNS zonetransfer regardless of serial ?

2001-08-14 Thread Marcel Hicking
Is it possible to force a secondary/slave NS to do a zone transfer for a particualr zone _regardless_ of the local stored serial? I certainly know that this is not recommended for daily use, but I occasionly have a situation where this is required. Any ideas beyond manually deleting the db-file?