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Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
From: Richard D G Cox <Richard () mandarin com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:17:58 GMT
On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank () openminds be> wrote: | > generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.) | > January 1970.) For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might | > have serial number "1076370400". The .com and .net zones will still | > be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in | > preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones. | stuid question Yup! | but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)? Nope!
The new format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation encoded as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... and not as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or any contracted version thereof! -- Richard
Current thread:
- Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Matt Larson (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Frank Louwers (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Hank Nussbacher (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Richard D G Cox (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Scott Call (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Paul Vixie (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Frank Louwers (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Robert Blayzor (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Robert A. Hayden (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Randy Bush (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Philip J. Nesser II (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Frank Louwers (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Randy Bush (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Frank Louwers (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 07)