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430N/A The best solution to solving installation and
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430N/A Zone serial numbers are just numbers — they aren't
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430N/A serial numbers are used to indicate that a zone has been
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430N/A Setting the serial number to a lower number on the master
430N/A server than the slave server means that the slave will not perform
430N/A updates to its copy of the zone.
430N/A The solution to this is to add 2147483647 (2^31-1) to the
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