question about serial numbers

Craig Dupree cdupree at uta.edu
Tue Jun 29 01:24:54 UTC 1999


Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Bill Manning wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> DNS will care if you roll over from "99123101" to "00010101".

It won't when I restart the daemon, minutes after I make this change.  
Sorry I left that out.  The point is ( as many people have pointed out ) is
that it's just a number, and I'll do whatever it takes to get the
system back on track with the numbering scheme we decide to use.  Even if
it isn't the most prettiest, elegant way to do it. ;-)

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