The following response is to a question re: dynamic DNS, but should answer everyone's questions and get rid of hype I personally go for the date/time serial # as it's historical, somewhat of a standard, easy to interpret, and another sys admin will understand it, too.
A number that includes hours and minutes should cover the worst case scenario where SOA is changed three times in one day. dreadful ??? chaos ???? :-) http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=90&question=135 >>>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: >>> >>>> Ok so there is not actual standard >>>> by increase you mean numberically have a higher value? >>> >>>Yes. >>> >>>> >>>> if it was to be less than the previous value, i assume something >>>> dreadful >>>> would happen >>> >>>Not dreadful, but chaos would result. I can't remember the exact >>>..details (don't have the Cricket book in front of me, it's been packed >>>already) but basically the zone transfer will fail in some way. >>Regards >>>Peter >>>---------- >>>Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Technical Consultant or at present: >>>eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301 >>> Regards, joe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
