more flexible serial number handling in dnssec-signzone

Jukka Pakkanen jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi
Fri Oct 15 18:23:38 UTC 2010


  15.10.2010 20:54, Niobos kirjoitti:
> 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.

Time usually goes to one direction only, forward... so using date/time 
makes sure you are always incrementing the serial. And you even don't 
need to know the current serial to update it.







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