[Pdns-users] PTRs and SQL queries,, autoserial?

[Seth Mattinen]

On 7/29/2010 15:34, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:20 -0500, Jared Watkins
> <jared at jaredwatkins.com> wrote:
> 
>> I¹m also not clear on weather the generic mysql backend supports auto
>> serials
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with many DNS servers with database backends, but I
> definitely know of none that actually have serials. Serials would be
> irrelevant because every time the DNS server is queried there is a query
> sent to the SQL server for the record data. IE, the DNS record is "live"
> the instant you commit the record in the database.
> 


Correct, it will query the database live. Serials would still used by
slaves though, such as if you had any like an external slave running BIND.

~Seth