From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 7:14:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4388A37B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vgLe-00057I-01 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 May 2001 15:14:22 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vgLb-000MHF-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 May 2001 15:14:19 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Purpose of serial number in zone files (BIND) Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 04 May 2001 15:14:18 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Bind question. What is the purpose of the serial number in the zone files? Is it only so that secondary name servers know that a change has happened? Does it have any use for the local named process? Do servers querying an authoritative server use this at all? Thanks, -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message