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Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
From: Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:53:48 -0500
On 8 Jan 2004, at 11:35, Owen DeLong wrote:
I don't see any real reason for Verisign to do this, other than possibly somelazy coding in automation tools (that SN is slightly easier to use as atimestamp in automation than one that is the encoded date). It doesn't providethe functionality they are striving for.
If they are going to do zone updates every 15 minutes, then that's 96 serial bumps per day. They could fit that in the the two-digit nn in YYYYMMDDnn, but it wouldn't leave an awful lot of room for any additional ad-hoc serial bumps that might be necessary to address operational problems.
YYYYMMDDnnn exceeds 32 bits for contemporary values of YYYY, so that's not a viable alternative. YYMMDDnnn would work, but has Y2K-ignorant connotations (not that that's particular relevant, post Y2K). Using a second-counter from the unix epoch seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to me.
Joe
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 Martin J. Levy (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Chris Yarnell (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Rob Pickering (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Gerald (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Owen DeLong (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change bill (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change Matt Larson (Jan 09)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Martin J. Levy (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Joe Abley (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Mans Nilsson (Jan 08)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Stephen J. Wilcox (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 Alexei Roudnev (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 07)
- Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones Alexei Roudnev (Jan 07)