Duplicate Serial Numbers for 2 Domains

[WestBendWeb]

Is there a reason why i would have two different domain names both with the same serial number?

[rushman]

Is it causing any errors? Im not 100% on DNS stuff just yet, but from my understanding the serial number just lets servers in a master/slave relationship know if an entry is fresh or not, so I don't know that duplicate serials are bad.

[QT]

Originally posted by WestBendWeb
Is there a reason why i would have two different domain names both with the same serial number?
It doesn't really matter that the serial numbers are the same. The serial numbers are just sequential and they change everytime you make a change to the domain. They probably all start out with the same number. Nothing to worry about. :)

[WestBendWeb]

well i was wondering if it was causing errors because i cant seem to resolve a domain that was pointed 5 days ago to me.

Its showing ns1.geodns.net and ns2.geodns.net as its name servers. I have a stealth dns setup. I added the domain to my server as an account and also using the DNS tool at SB to say my ip was the master.

The domain is thehollowmens.net and it doesent resolve at all. Any ideas?

[WestBendWeb]

If i use nslookup and set my ns to ns1.geodns.net i get the following :

> name thehollowmens.net
Server: thehollowmens.net
Address: 69.44.59.117

Name: name.


but it does not seem to have propogated to all the other ns servers on the net

[WestBendWeb]

One more thought :)

I am adding my subdomain accounts as FULL accounts which then creates a subdomain.domain.com zone even though there is a domain.com zone listed as well. If this is the case do i have to add the subdomains using the DNS tool?

[rushman]

The subdomain should have an entry in the DNS zone of the main domain, ie sub.domain.com should be in the domain.com zone. If you do it that way, and the geodns servers are set as slaves to your nameserver, it will update the zone within 1 hour. If sub.domain.com is its own zone, I don't know what will happen.

[WestBendWeb]

i thought it should be in the main zone file as well but i wanted to find out before i did anything since it takes so long to see if things work lol

Does anyone have a definitive answer?

[knightfoo]

If you have "domain.com" configured in DNS (DNS Tool or your own server), you do not need to configure another zone for "sub.domain.com". You just need to add "sub.domain.com" as an A record or CNAME record in the "domain.com" zone. Creating an extra zone for a subdomain is just creating extra work for yourself because you have to maintain two zones instead of one.

The only time you would configure "sub.domain.com" seperately is if you want to delegate authority for the subdomain to another nameserver.

-knightfoo

[WestBendWeb]

ok thanks, thats what i figured to be honest but people kept saying keep the zone as its auto created by WHM, i have to delete the sub zone it creates and manually add it to the main file which makes sense to me..