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

Wed Jan 7 23:55:54 UTC 2004

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Robert Blayzor wrote:

> 
> On 1/7/04 6:31 PM, "Frank Louwers" <frank at openminds.be> wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Remember this is Verisign we're talking about, RFC's need not apply.  More
> notably RFC1912 which recommends the YYYYMMDDnn format.
> 
> If CTO at Verisign's head splits open and a UFO should fly out, I want you
> and everyone on this list to have expected it.

Considering that using the YYYYMMDDnn format would still permit them 100 
updates per day (every 15 minutes or so) you'd think they'd stay with the 
RFC.

nah....

*grumble*