[66312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Wed Jan 7 18:50:09 2004
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:46:55 -0500
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040108003144.A1795@openminds.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 1/7/04 6:31 PM, "Frank Louwers" <frank@openminds.be> wrote:
> 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...
Remember this is Verisign we're talking about, RFC's need not apply. More
notably RFC1912 which recommends the YYYYMMDDnn format.
If CTO at Verisign's head splits open and a UFO should fly out, I want you
and everyone on this list to have expected it.
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