Daniel Ryslink <[email protected]> wrote: > > As for the SERIAL in SOA, it's just a good practice, it gives you the > information about when the zone was published, and creates less problems > when you transfer hosting of the domain to another nameserver. Basically > yes, it's just a number, but there is no real good reason not to use the > recommended format.
There are good reasons depending on the tools you use for automatically maintaining your zones. For dynamic zones, BIND before version 9.9 could only increment the serial number. If you wanted it to be a date stamp you would have to explicitly adjust the serial number in your UPDATE request. (For instance, nsdiff -S date will do this for you.) BIND 9.9 and later have a serial-update-method option which allows you to choose increment or unixtime modes. But not ISO 8601 style date stamps. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Viking, North Utsire: Easterly 4 or 5, increasing 6 at times. Slight or moderate, but rough in southwest Viking. Showers later. Good, occasionally poor later. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
