question about serial numbers
Craig Dupree
cdupree at uta.edu
Tue Jun 29 01:07:07 UTC 1999
Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>
> 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.
Well I do use a home grown perl script which creates the new SOA, and
then copies it and the actual resource records into a file ( mainly to
avoid problems with not incrementing or mistakenly incrementing the serial
number ). But as it is pointed out, the serial number is ultimately a
number, so BIND won't care if Jan 1, 2000's serial number is 0001010,
or 200001010. But I will probably ( easily done ) alter the script
since I'm sure in 100 years, we will want to be saving our archival files
as 209912310, rather than overwriting 9912310. I may even wait until
Dec 31, 1999 to do this.
Let's hope all y2000 problems are this minor.
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