[66342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Thu Jan 8 02:00:46 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Frank Louwers" <frank@openminds.be>,
"Maarten Van Horenbeeck" <maarten@daemon.be>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:00:15 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If they do this change, theyll break a tremendows number of systems around.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Louwers" <frank@openminds.be>
To: "Maarten Van Horenbeeck" <maarten@daemon.be>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
>
> 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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