Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

Wed Jan 7 23:31:44 UTC 2004

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:17:58PM +0000, Richard D G Cox wrote:
> 
> | 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!

Don't they use YYYYMMDDNN now? So today's version whould be 2004010801.
AFAIK, 1076370400 is actually "less" then 2004010801...

I know there are ways to "trick" nameservers in believing less is more,
but that requires at least 2 changes, and I don't know if that is
actually RFC-compliant behaviour...

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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