[dns-operations] rdata out of range

[Petr Spacek]

On 30.4.2014 12:03, Ken Peng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I update the SOA with nsupdate but got the error:
>
> [20140430175917] 30-Apr-2014 17:59:17.384 dns_rdata_fromtext:
> buffer-0xb61c2bbc:1: near '8000999999': out of range
>   invalid rdata format: out of range
>   syntax error
>
> 8000999999 is the serial I setup.
> The server is linux 32bit OS.
> nameserver is BIND9.7.
>
> Can you tell what's wrong?

The error message is correct - your serial is out of acceptable range.

It has to be in range [0,2^31-1]. (People usually avoid 0.)

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Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat