hi, > > not sure how to read that. now that my time's correct again, can/should > > I leave the server as is? or is there a specific recommendation for > > time setup on a DNS server? >
On Tue, 10 May 2011 16:58 +1000, "Mark Andrews" <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > "date -u" may now be correct but is plain "date"? If it isn't you > should correct timezone for the server so that both "date" and "date > -u" are correct. Otherwise you leave the server open to the > accidental misconfiguration that probably caused this problem in > the first place. On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:37 +0100, "Phil Mayers" <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > On 05/10/2011 07:58 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Also, depending on your OS, check what timezone the hardware (bios) > clock is stored in, and when you next reboot the server, check that it > pushes OS time -> hardware time correctly, and reads it back correctly > on startup. thanks for the pointers. hwclock was wrong, too. after setting HWCLOCK=-u" in '/etc/sysconfig/clock', after reboot, 'date', 'date -u', and 'hwclock' all now track correctly, and grep valid /etc/named.conf dnssec-validation yes; dig www.adobe.com | egrep "^www.adobe.com|WHEN" www.adobe.com. 3398 IN CNAME www.wip4.adobe.com. ;; WHEN: Tue May 10 07:37:31 2011 still works, and @ the correct time! lessons learned ... thanks again, DCh _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users