Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-25 Thread Colin
The generally accepted method (AFAIR) is mmddxx, where xx starts at 00 and is incremented for each change during that day. This allows for multiple updates in a single day without causing problems for situations such as 3 updates today followed by one update each day for the next 4 days

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread sthaug
> > I once put in an extra digit in the serial number. > > This made a secondary use a serial number, which was larger than mine, and > > could probably be the modulus 2^32. > > I had to call the hostmaster there (A "3.rd secondary" hosted at our > > uplink) to get the zonefile removed, so the rig

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread James FitzGibbon
* Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000423 13:17]: > I once put in an extra digit in the serial number. > This made a secondary use a serial number, which was larger than mine, and > could probably be the modulus 2^32. > I had to call the hostmaster there (A "3.rd secondary" hosted at our > uplink

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:You can not be sure your secondary dns servers are picking up your :zonefile, when you update the primary. : You can 'reset' (roll-over) the serial number, but when you do so you have to realize that the secondaries may continue to cache the 'old' version of the zone file all the w

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread Leif Neland
You can not be sure your secondary dns servers are picking up your zonefile, when you update the primary. On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > well ours is still working fine ! > thats why I asked this question, we did not realize that it went over 32 > bit boundary > how can I underst

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread Leif Neland
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Hello, > > is the bind have 32 bit unsigned integer variable for the serial > number part of the dns records? > if yes, it means that we cant have a number bigger than > 4294967296 right? Somewhere I read something like: "The format MMDDnn" is

Re: bind and the limit of serial number ???

2000-04-23 Thread Evren Yurtesen
well ours is still working fine ! thats why I asked this question, we did not realize that it went over 32 bit boundary how can I understand if there is a problem or not? Evren On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Dave Dunaway wrote: > > Put a number bigger than 2^32 and it will overflows. > > > is the bind h