On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:52 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > For zone files which are an ultimate answer and thus will never > change, a convention is to use a serial number of "42". Hehehe. I'd seen 42 used before, and knew the joke behind it was related to Douglas Adams, but never heard the reason for using it explained in that manner. ;-) > The procedure for decrementing a zone serial number is, umm, > convoluted. Yes, I've read some of the ways to do it, but just about all (such as setting it to zero, then something after updates have rippled through) require manual checking, and perhaps manual intervention. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
