In message <20040107231727.714B.RICHARD@mandarin.com>, Richard D G Cox writes:
On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be> wrote: | > generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.) | > January 1970.) For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might | > have serial number "1076370400". The .com and .net zones will still | > be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in | > preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones.
| stuid question
Yup!
| but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
Nope!
Now I'm very confused -- bc says that it is... (Well, I used 2004010700, which is what I get for the current SOA.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb