From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 28 13:51:27 2002 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 AC38837B401 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AA843E81 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8SKp8mC097315 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:51:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8SKp8mV097314; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:51:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:51:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200209282051.g8SKp8mV097314@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named rejecting all kinds of serials In-Reply-To: <20020928151840.GV30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-28 15:48:00 +0200: > > Bye the way, RFC 1912 is definitely recommended reading for > > anybody who operates a name server or who is responsible > > for zone files. > > Heh, RFC 1912 (and the others) are definitely recommended reading > for anybody who operates the BIND name server, No, I disagree, it is recommended reading for everone who operates name service, no matter if it's BIND or Microsoft Domain Wizard or whatever it might be called. Large parts of the RFC are not BIND-specific, including the handling of serial numbers, which is the topic of this thread. > Your advice was actually very much to the point, Janine obviously > runs BIND. I just find it hilarious that RFCs are a viable way of > documenting an implementation (as opposed to a principle). BIND is the reference implementation of DNS, and I guess it is the most complete and correct one. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message