more flexible serial number handling in dnssec-signzone

[Ben McGinnes]

On 16/10/10 4:54 AM, Niobos wrote:
> 
> What's the advantage of using a date anyway? I too can see when a zone
> was last edited, even down to the second, by watching the RRSIG(SOA) timing.

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79359, Mar 24 2010, 01:32:55)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time, sys
>>> print time.time()
1287165703.67
>>> print time.asctime(time.gmtime())
Fri Oct 15 18:02:12 2010
>>> print sys.maxint
2147483647
>>> print time.asctime(time.gmtime(sys.maxint))
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
>>> 

You don't have to worry about it yet, but it may be an issue in the
future.  Some 64-bit systems still report this same limitation as 32-bit
systems.  For some read: every one that I've checked this on.

Mind you, when the date rolls around we'll have bigger problems when
running systems that are affected by that.


Regards,
Ben

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