Date: 04 May 2001 15:14:18 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Purpose of serial number in zone files (BIND) Message-ID: <m1wv7xdww5.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
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Hi all, Bind question. What is the purpose of the serial number in the zone files? Is it only so that secondary name servers know that a change has happened? Does it have any use for the local named process? Do servers querying an authoritative server use this at all? Thanks, -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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