From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 22:51:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA57C16A41F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:51:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CEB143D45 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:51:40 +0100 id 0003982D.4388E6FD.000003EC Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:51:40 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-ID: <20051126225140.GA991@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051120105719.19460df6.dick@nagual.st> <200511251553.17891.akbeech@gmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051125171610.02addb80@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4388A23E.8080208@grokking.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4388A23E.8080208@grokking.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: de nagual X-Sylpheed-Account-Id: 1 Subject: Re: MX freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:51:48 -0000 On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:58:22 -0800 Greg Maruszeczka wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > > Actually, the serial number is only used by the slave servers for a > > particular zone to decide whether or not a zone transfer is needed. > > I don't think that's entirely true. The serial number is also used by > named internally to determine whether to reload your zones, and hence, > to make the actual change in memory. AFAIK if you don't update the > serial number the change won't take effect. > Of course, the serial number change ALSO signals to slaves that they > need to update their copies. Just to let you all know it all worked out OK. And, yes, sure I did update the serial numbers in the zonefiles. I always do that after (how minor) a change.. Thanks everyone for thinking along. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve