Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

[Crist Clark <crist.clark () globalstar com>]

Matt Larson wrote:
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
> format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
> or shortly after 9 February 2004.
>
> The current serial number format is YYYYMMDDNN.  (The zones are
> generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.)  The new
> format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation encoded
> as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. (00:00:00 GMT, 1
> 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.

Agghh! The y2038 bug!
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