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

[Frank Louwers <frank () openminds be>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:34:46PM +0000, Maarten Van Horenbeeck wrote:
> Hi Frank,

Dag Maarten,

> > stuid question, but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
>
> This doesn't apply here.  It is perfectly possible to decrease the value
> of your serial number without any consequences for the DNS slave/master
> zone transfers, if you adhere to the procedures put forward in RFC 1912
> (section 3.1).  The fact that the newly introduced serial is lower will
> thus not have any consequences from this perspective.

Yes, but we all know there are quite some non-compliant dns-servers out
there. Do they want to break the largest zone for a few days for all
non-compliant servers?

Oh, wait, right, they don't care if they break stuff...

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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