[66302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Wed Jan 7 18:07:05 2004
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:05:54 -0800
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
