The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Right now, serial number management is basically left to the user. There's an "increment_serial" function available in the backend, but it's not used anymore. The way this should work is that the backend should *parse* the zonefile and actually increment from *that* serial when editing a zonefile. That serial number would then be returned to the frontend, which would stored the modified serial in the database.
From a user perspective, the serial number should be a readonly field.
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Comment #1
anarcat commentedtaggin
Comment #2
adrian commentedThe serial management stuff is in there, but it needs a way to determine a reasonable default, without the user being required to enter the first one.
Comment #3
adrian commentedthis is working fine in dev-dns
it defaults to the date if none is present