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Verisign Plans DNS Changes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-user-impact dept.

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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  1. Re:Stop Changing DNS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the hell will this be a pain in the ass? Any software that relies on .com's serial number remaining static is broken and needs to be fixed. Complain to the software developers, as Verisign is not at fault this time.

  2. Hey... by Neophytus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    2038 anyone?

  3. Re:Stop Changing DNS by jrumney · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reading between the lines, it looks to me like Verisign want to start providing real time DNS updates, in which case there is a reason for change it. Currently they update the database twice a day, which is well within the limits of the current serial number scheme. But with real time updates, they could easily get to 100 updates in a day.