question about serial numbers

Villy Kruse vek at pharmnl.ohout.pharmapartners.nl
Wed Jun 30 10:56:28 UTC 1999


In article <19990629211206.576.qmail at p60.freret.org>,
Payne Freret  <dnslist at freret.org> wrote:
>
>RFC1982: "Serial numbers are formed from non-negative integers from a
>finite subset of the range of all integer values."
>
>RFC1035: "SERIAL   The unsigned 32-bit version number of the original
>copy of the zone."
>
>Payne Freret
>

It is rather a modulo 4294967296 integer so the next number after
4294967295 will be 0 and the next one again 1, and so on.  You can
increment the number by no more than 2147483647.  Otherwise the 
new number will be considered smaller than the old number.

Any RFC confirms this?

Villy


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