Serial numbers in zone files help your DNS service determine whether it should re-ingest your zone files or ignore them. But there's more to these pseudo timestamps than meets the eye.

The dns-tools tool has support for the new ZONEMD registry, created at the end of 2020. This registry allows to have a checksum of the complete zone file, which allows the one receiving a zone to ...

Same for zone transfer notification.<BR><BR>Does anyone know of a script or point me in the right direction to creating a script that can apply these zone transfer settings automatically?

OK, so I've recently switched my DNS services from Dotster to Granite Canyon, because GC is free and I figured I could write a host file with relative ease. Apparently I can't. Here is my current ...