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Re: [Testbed-admins] Bump up serial number in DNS

The problem is that we are trying to setup the reverse DNS for the emulab machines. We never ntocied this but reverse DNS lookup never worked for us. This was becasue the Emulab subnet was pasrt our department IP space and we just had reverse looks for boss and ops. This DNS server(department) was the SOA and provided updates to other servers and we used the date as the serial number ex. 2009121400 . This is obviously much higher that what boss has. If we just bump it up to that number , our problems should be resolved. 

cheers,

Hussam
(Hussamuddin Nasir)

Netlab Operations Team

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On 12/14/2009 5:18 PM, Leigh Stoller wrote:

   Is there an easy way to bump up the serial number in the named db
files. It is done currently by the named_conf script in
/usr/tesbed/sbin. But it generates a serial number that is way low that
what is required for us to propagate the DNS updates to our other DNS
servers.


Hmm, I guess we were hoping that a unix timestamp would be a big
enough number for people.

Is the serial number still 32 bits? If so, we got 2 more bits to
turn on.

Lbs