Verisign Plans DNS Changes

NetWizard writes "According to a recent NANOG post and an InfoWorld story, 'Verisign will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on or shortly after 9 February 2004'. They seemed to have learned their lesson, from the post: 'There should be no end-user impact resulting from these changes (though it's conceivable that some people have processes that rely on the semantics of the .com/.net serial number.) But because these zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet community know about the changes in advance.)'"

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Aaww just great

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Verisign will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones

Right, so when I fall on an unresolved address, I can't even return it under warranty because the serial number has changed, and even if they did reimburse me, they changed the value. That's just flipping great...

Re:I see a problem

[91degrees]

Oh, don't worry. Everything will just sort itself out on the 3rd July 2033.

Re:ISO 8601 specifies YYYYMMDD

[You're All Wrong]

That's called a counter. You know -- integers starting from zero.
I don't know if there's an international standard for counters,
but there's certainly a /de facto/ standard for them.

Lesson 2, "concatenation", to follow in my next post.

YAW.