[66301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Louwers)
Wed Jan 7 18:02:45 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:01:58 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040107224623.GS26806@chinook.rgy.netsol.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:46:23PM -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
> 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.
stuid question, but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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