[66309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jan 7 18:38:27 2004
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Richard@mandarin.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:17:58 GMT."
<20040107231727.714B.RICHARD@mandarin.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:32:51 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <20040107231727.714B.RICHARD@mandarin.com>, Richard D G Cox writes:
>
>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!
Now I'm very confused -- bc says that it is... (Well, I used
2004010700, which is what I get for the current SOA.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
