[66310] 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 18:42:25 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:38:52 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: Maarten Van Horenbeeck <maarten@daemon.be>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0401072329510.32516@sequoia.daemon.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:34:46PM +0000, Maarten Van Horenbeeck wrote:
> Hi Frank,
Dag Maarten,
> > stuid question, but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
>
> This doesn't apply here. It is perfectly possible to decrease the value
> of your serial number without any consequences for the DNS slave/master
> zone transfers, if you adhere to the procedures put forward in RFC 1912
> (section 3.1). The fact that the newly introduced serial is lower will
> thus not have any consequences from this perspective.
Yes, but we all know there are quite some non-compliant dns-servers out
there. Do they want to break the largest zone for a few days for all
non-compliant servers?
Oh, wait, right, they don't care if they break stuff...
Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers
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