[Dnsmasq-discuss] Zone transfer fails without any error

[Simon Kelley]

On 03/08/18 18:26, Wojtek Swiatek wrote:
> 
> 
> Le ven. 3 août 2018 à 19:18, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk
> <mailto:simon at thekelleys.org.uk>> a écrit :
> 
>     The serial number is initialised when dnsmasq starts up to the current
>     time (seconds since 1st Jan 1970).
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
>     If your serial starts a one each time dnsmasq starts up then something
>     is wrong. Maybe dnsmasq is started before the time is set in your
>     machine?
> 
> 
> I run it on a "normal" server, the time is maintained via ntp (chrony
> actually).
> The problem is there when I restart dnsmasq as well:
> 
> root at srv:~# dig @127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> swtk.info
> <http://swtk.info> soa | grep SOA
> swtk.info <http://swtk.info>.              600     IN      SOA     . .
> 15 1200 180 1209600 600
> root at srv:~# systemctl stop dnsmasq.service && systemctl start
> dnsmasq.service
> root at srv:~# dig @127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> swtk.info
> <http://swtk.info> soa | grep SOA
> swtk.info <http://swtk.info>.              600     IN      SOA     . . 1
> 1200 180 1209600 600
> root at srv:~# systemctl stop dnsmasq.service && systemctl start
> dnsmasq.service
> root at srv:~# dig @127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> swtk.info
> <http://swtk.info> soa | grep SOA
> swtk.info <http://swtk.info>.              600     IN      SOA     . . 1
> 1200 180 1209600 600
> root at srv:~# date +'%s'
> 1533316912
> 
> I do not know how the first serial ended up being 15, but a restart sets
> it at 1. 
> 
> Cheers
> Wojtek
> 

What version of dnsmasq are you running?


Cheers,

Simon.