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

[Robert Blayzor <rblayzor () inoc net>]

On 1/7/04 6:31 PM, "Frank Louwers" <frank () openminds be> wrote:

> Don't they use YYYYMMDDNN now? So today's version whould be 2004010801.
> AFAIK, 1076370400 is actually "less" then 2004010801...
>
> I know there are ways to "trick" nameservers in believing less is more,
> but that requires at least 2 changes, and I don't know if that is
> actually RFC-compliant behaviour...

Remember this is Verisign we're talking about, RFC's need not apply.  More
notably RFC1912 which recommends the YYYYMMDDnn format.

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and everyone on this list to have expected it.

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