Re: bind8 sequence number not updating

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Ah, I see the problem here - it is just the reverse zone that is
not having the serial number updated in the case where a record
could have had a reverse entry before, but didnt't. When you save
it (even if no changes were made) it creates the reverse record
and canonicalises the forward record, which is perfectly correct.

I will fix the serial number problem in the next webmin release ..

 - Jamie

Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> 
> The version I'm running is 0.980 on Solaris which has the security fix,
> I believe?
> 
> The sequence numbers DO get updated after an explicit change, however I
> just started using this on previously created files, which did not have
> reverse entries for A records in the forward table. Also, the names in
> the forward table were simply the host name, without the domain
> attached. After using Webmin to examine the record, without performing
> any explicit change, the entry in the forward table now has the domain
> attached, and an entry has been created in the reverse table - but the
> sequence numbers don't get updated in this scenario.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Cheers,
> Eamonn
> 
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 00:25, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Folks.
> > >
> > > I'm running Webmin 0.98 with the latest bind module, and it appears that
> > > it has a little problem. The sequence number of the forward and reverse
> > > files doesn't seem to get updated unless I make an explicit change to a
> > > zone ( i.e. add/remove/explicitly edit a record ). This happens even if
> > > Webmin has to create a reverse entry for a record, or convert it to
> > > canonical form.
> > >
> > > Is this a config item, or is there really a problem here?
> >
> > Are you running webmin 0.970 ?  It updates the serial number for a zone
> > every time a record is changed, added or deleted in both forward and
> > reverse zones - at least on my system. The only reason why it wouldn't
> > is if the Module Config option 'Automatically update serial numbers' is set to No.
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >