question about serial numbers

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".