question about serial numbers
Patrick Greenwell
patrick at stealthgeeks.net
Tue Jun 29 01:25:44 UTC 1999
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".
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