On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Richard D G Cox wrote:
On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be> wrote:
| stuid question
Yup!
| but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
Nope!
The new format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation encoded as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... and not as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or any contracted version thereof!
I think what Frank is asking is a valid question. The way BIND/etc determine when a new zone file has been issued is by seeing if it has a higher SN than the currently caches zone. Frank's question is that when view simply as 10 digit integers (which is how BIND uses them) 2004010801 is a larger integer than 1076370400. This might cause problems with cached zones and other such staleness, so it does seem a valid concern. -Scott --- Scott Call Router Geek, ATGi, home of $6.95 Prime Rib I make the world a better place, I boycott Wal-Mart