I just changed my domain’s nameservers to DO’s and got this when I did a DNS check at mxtoolbox.com:
SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid ns1.digitalocean.com reported Serial 1421780039 : Suggested serial format year was 1421 which is before 1970.
SOA Expire Value out of recommended range ns1.digitalocean.com reported Expire 604800 : Expire is recommended to be between 1209600 and 2419200.
Is there any way to fix this?
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Nope. You’re not in control of the SOA record directly. To be fair, those are warnings.
it does not actually “cause” any issues, but it does cause errors/warnings for automated tasks that sys admins have setup. I’ve had to change a few of my sync scripts to process past SOA format error.
If you absolutely do need to have the SOA follow that format, you could install bind on your server, and manually modify your zone file (I wish the digitalocean interface had this option).
Hey guys, sorry but the DO notifications went into the promotions bin in gmail. I’m not having any problems at all. I just noticed that when I was checking some other things.
So far DO is awesome!
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