[Pdns-users] soa questions

[Master_PE]

Op wo 30-06-2004, om 12:22 schreef Ueli Heuer:
> Hi pdns user,
> 
> a customer from us has set up a domain with a soa serial of 0 (zero).
> 
> Pdns has never started a zonetransfer, and in the logfiles pdns writes "zone xyz is fresh". 
> 
> as far as I know dns-servers fetches the zones only if the remote serial is bigger then there own copy.  in my case my server does not have the zone in the (Mysql-)DB and it compares a 0 'a database null or no records found' with a 0 (zero).  these are equal and no zone transfers happenes. 
> 
> I'm not sure if a SOA-Serial of 0 is allowed or not. If it is, then this a minor bug within Powerdns else I have to teach our customer. 
> 
> does anyone know more about that issue ?
> 

Ask your customer to increase  that number. The best way is to use
YYYYMMDDSS

Y = Year
M = Month
D = Day
S = Serial

So when you chanced the domain for the second time this day it will be
2004070102

Regards,

Master_PE