nanog mailing list archives
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:04:18 -0600
Alexander Kiwerski wrote:
On 7 Jan 2004 @ 15:25 PST Richard DG Cox wrote:|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!Um, isn't the serial number in a zone file read in by BIND as a standard integer? If so, then 2004010101 (date format serial) would be > 1076370400 (UTC serial number) when compared wouldn't it as they are both 10 digit integers.....?
And from the stupid question file, is 1912 a standard? (RFC Editor says it is "Informational".
Current thread:
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones, (continued)
- 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 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 Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 07)
- RE: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Alexander Kiwerski (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 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Owen DeLong (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Jim Dawson (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Adam Debus (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones bill (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Ian Mason (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Frank Louwers (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Randy Bush (Jan 08)