[66318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Wed Jan 7 19:13:30 2004
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:00:52 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Frank Louwers wrote:
>
> 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...
Since I am currently unemployed I guess it is only as they say of
academic interest to me, but I don't see why it doesn't break it, and
for functionally all of time.
