Is there a max on the Serial Number?

[Bob Vance]

>Can't you have:
<Year><Month><Day><hour><minute> anymore?

Sure.... but *not*

    <century><Year><Month><Day><hour><minute>

(unless the minute never goes over 99 :)

SERIAL is 32 bits, unsigned and can't handle over 10 digits.

The best that you can do is
    ccyymmddNN
where NN is a simple sequence number for that day.
This can be a problem if you have more than 99 changes per day, say,
because of DHCP dynamic updates.
OTOH, you could move your serial number *forward* to
    yymmddmmmm
now that we're past Y2K (see archives).
But, then what are you gonna do for the year 2043 :)

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Subject: Is there a max on the Serial Number?




If the serial number in the SOA entry is over 10 digits it gives me the
following error in rndc when I try to so a reload.

For example: 2001020223 will work, but 20010202231 will not.
It gives me the following error:

dns_rdata_fromtext: db.domainname.com:2: near '10800': out of range

Can't you have:
<Year><Month><Day><hour><minute> anymore?

Thanks for any help,
-Steve