If you're editing it in WHM, it'll increment the serial number automatically. If you're editing it by hand for some reason, just increment the serial number by hand as well.
for a given file domain.com.db how do you do this?
maybe via the command line?
i need to do it for a couple hundred domains
maybe via the command line?
i need to do it for a couple hundred domains
The format of the zone files should be predictable, so you should be able to write a script to edit them all. There isn't an easy, ready-made way of doing it as far as I know.
The other way would be to edit each file with vim, emacs, nano, whatever. That would obviously be pretty time consuming though.
The other way would be to edit each file with vim, emacs, nano, whatever. That would obviously be pretty time consuming though.
Hello 
This will increment the serial for all DNS zones within the /var/named directory.
Thank you.
This could be achieved using a Perl command like the one posted below. Please notice that /var/named is backed up before running this command so it can be restored if any errors occur:
Code:
# cp -a /var/named /var/named-backup
# find /var/named/*.db -mtime -1 -exec perl -pi -e 'if (/^\s+(\d{10})\s+;\s+serial/i) { my $i = $1+1; s/$1/$i/;}' '{}' \;Thank you.
