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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
On 7 Jan 2004 @ 15:25 PST Richard DG Cox wrote: >|On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <[email protected]> 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.....? /Alex K.
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