[66305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D G Cox)
Wed Jan 7 18:21:27 2004
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:17:58 GMT
From: Richard D G Cox <Richard@mandarin.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Richard@mandarin.com
In-Reply-To: <20040108000158.A27373@openminds.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be> 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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
=2E.. and not as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or any contracted version thereof!
--=20
Richard
