Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-04 Thread Kevin Darcy
Next stage of evolution = Dynamic Update. Never have to futz with bumping serial numbers ever again. - Kevin Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: You may find named-compilezone useful to get your zone files in a consistent format before performing your mass update. //Brad On May 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, S

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-03 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
You may find named-compilezone useful to get your zone files in a consistent format before performing your mass update. //Brad On May 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: I client of mine has thousands of DNS zones that will need a ttl chance and a serial bump. I want to set a relevant

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-02 Thread Chris Buxton
Scott, The refresh timer is not the correct target. The refresh timer governs replication between master and slave in the absence of notifications. Instead, target the $TTL line at the top of each zone. This provides the default TTL of each record in the absence of any explicit TTL (or "i

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 10:12, Scott Haneda wrote: > On May 2, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > >> Any suggestions > > > > perl substitutions would be your friend, had to do this myself a > > few years back, but the key is do fresh backup /var/named first, > > then try: perl -pi -e

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-02 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 2, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 08:39, Scott Haneda wrote: I client of mine has thousands of DNS zones that will need a ttl chance and a serial bump. I want to set a relevant ttl to 300 for a few days. After that, an IP address change will be made, and I

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-02 Thread Noel Butler
Scott, On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 08:39, Scott Haneda wrote: > I client of mine has thousands of DNS zones that will need a ttl > chance and a serial bump. I want to set a relevant ttl to 300 for a > few days. > > After that, an IP address change will be made, and I would like to > change the