On May 2, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Anirban Mukherjee wrote:

> Is it correct to expect the following if SOA Serial is set to "keep"
> in the concerned policy ?
> 
> i) The very first time a zone is signed, the SOA serial of the signed
> file will be the same as that of the unsigned file.
> 
> ii) Post the first-time signing, if a sign zone command is issued
> without incrementing the serial number of the unsigned file, the
> signing fails with an error saying that the serial number has not
> increased i.e. an attempt to resign a zone fails unless the serial
> number has been incremented.

Yes, this is correct. The purpose of the keep option is to only sign a zone if 
the zone has been updated as indicated by the incoming SOA serial. This is 
useful for a TLD for example, which creates new zonefiles with regular 
intervals.

-- 
Patrik Wallström
Project Manager, R&D
.SE (Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur)
E-mail: [email protected]
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