[66308] 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 18:34:35 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:31:44 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: Richard D G Cox <Richard@mandarin.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040107231727.714B.RICHARD@mandarin.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:17:58PM +0000, Richard D G Cox wrote:
>
> | 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!
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...
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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