question about serial numbers

Bill Manning bmanning at ISI.EDU
Sat Jun 26 04:36:38 UTC 1999


> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:37:13AM -0500, Craig Dupree <cdupree at uta.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > For our SOA serial number we use the format YYMMDDN ( N being the
> > Nth update performed that day ).
> 
> Your serial numbers are not y2000 compliant, which is especially bad if you
> have automated systems updating your zone files.


	Er, yes they are.  Serial numbers are not dates. 
	A serial number is a signed integer.  Please see
	RFC 1982 for details. Impuing a date on a signed
	number is one way to help humans. DNS does not care.


--bill


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