From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 22:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23112 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23072 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA09197; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:37:14 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <3607378A.794BDF32@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:37:14 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns References: <199809211949.MAA09629@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:15:47 +0200 > >From: Jacques Hugo > > >Change the serial number of your dns entries. named checks for > >this and if there is a change (not in entries but the serial number) > >it runs to your other dns serverers (IN NS) and updates them. > > Small point: please be sure that when you change your serial numbers, > that they *increase* in magnitude. The above-mentioned changes only > take place if the authoritative sources are believed to be *more* > current than what's in hand.... That is correct, yes. Thanks for reminding me. What I usually do is use the date, eg 19880922 ;Serial and whenever I change some DNS entries I up the value to the current date. -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" ... so I got BSD Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message