On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:58:22 -0800 Greg Maruszeczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glenn Dawson wrote: > > Actually, the serial number is only used by the slave servers for a > > particular zone to decide whether or not a zone transfer is needed. > > I don't think that's entirely true. The serial number is also used by > named internally to determine whether to reload your zones, and hence, > to make the actual change in memory. AFAIK if you don't update the > serial number the change won't take effect. > Of course, the serial number change ALSO signals to slaves that they > need to update their copies. Just to let you all know it all worked out OK. And, yes, sure I did update the serial numbers in the zonefiles. I always do that after (how minor) a change.. Thanks everyone for thinking along. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
