I user powerdns (and -plugin) and when I add new zone using template, the zone will get zero as serial until i make some change or add new record for the zone. Looks like it also ignores my refresh/retry etc. times in template and writes only "ns1.server.foo email.server.foo 0" to the powerdns.records table as SOA, without any refresh/retry etc. times after that zero so powerdns will tell default values for those in SOA-query. My template: Code: [ZONE] origin={DOMAIN}. ns=ns1.server.foo. mbox=email.server.foo. refresh=7200 retry=540 expire=604800 minimum=86400 ttl=3600 [DNS_RECORDS] A|{DOMAIN}.|127.1.2.3|0|3600 CNAME|www.{DOMAIN}.|some.server.foo.|0|3600 NS|{DOMAIN}.|ns1.server.foo.|0|3600 NS|{DOMAIN}.|ns2.server.foo.|0|3600 NS|{DOMAIN}.|ns3.server.foo.|0|3600 MX|{DOMAIN}.|mail.server.foo.|42|3600 It works like this too but it's really annoying to manually update the serial by adding some bogus A-record or tell that to some non-tech client to do. Any ideas how to fix this?