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

Thu Jan 8 01:01:37 UTC 2004

> >VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
> >format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
> >or shortly after 9 February 2004.

> Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice
of
> these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely break
> some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.

If you reread the original mail, they gave us 32 days of notice. The change
will not be happening until February 9.

Thanks,

Adam Debus
Network Engineer, ReachONE Internet
adam at reachone.com