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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:07:32PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> > each time an update tarball is created, the zone serial number for the
> > "top level" spamassassin.org SOA needs to be incremented.
> > 
> > I'd prefer to avoid this, but I can't really see a way to do so, unless we
> > explicitly set up updates.spamassassin.org. as a separate zone with a
> > separate SOA of its own -- and therefore separate secondaries etc!
> 
> Yeah, I had been going back and forth thinking about this issue.  I generally
> decided that keeping the single zone will make things easier.  If the updates
> traffic gets to be too much, we could split it off, but I doubt that'll happen
> anytime soon.

I was more worried about the danger aspects of auto-editing the zone
file daily ;)  The records for updates can be done with a $INCLUDE,
but I'm not sure about the SOA line.

> It's not really a big deal to update the main zone instead of just the updates
> area.  We can easily do 100 revisions per day while keeping the YYYYMMDDVV
> format, and the current servers will probably do IXFR to transfer diffs
> around.

OK; if you're not too worried, I'm not either ;)

- --j.

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