From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 10:57:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28DC37B9C2 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 10:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.2/8.9.3) with UUCP id TAA27936; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:57:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA33192; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:39:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:39:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Dave Dunaway , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind and the limit of serial number ??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can not be sure your secondary dns servers are picking up your zonefile, when you update the primary. On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > well ours is still working fine ! > thats why I asked this question, we did not realize that it went over 32 > bit boundary > how can I understand if there is a problem or not? > Evren > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Dave Dunaway wrote: > > > > > Put a number bigger than 2^32 and it will overflows. > > > > > is the bind have 32 bit unsigned integer variable for the serial > > > number part of the dns records? > > > if yes, it means that we cant have a number bigger than > > > 4294967296 right? what happens if we have a bigger number? > > > then bind takes it like modulus 2^32? or it is forbidden to > > > have a bigger number? > > > > -- > > > > Dave. > > > > > > Dave Dunaway > > bela@nivek.org > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message