From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 17:45:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBAA37B872 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwass99@home.com) Received: from tristan.net ([24.114.108.234]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000426004515.TOIP910.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@tristan.net>; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:45:15 -0700 Content-Length: 922 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200004231805.LAA62689@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:39:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Colin To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: bind and the limit of serial number ??? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dave Dunaway , Evren Yurtesen , Leif Neland Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The generally accepted method (AFAIR) is yyyymmddxx, where xx starts at 00 and is incremented for each change during that day. This allows for multiple updates in a single day without causing problems for situations such as 3 updates today followed by one update each day for the next 4 days ... Of course, if you never manually update the zone file, this isn't really an issue ;) On 23-Apr-00 Matthew Dillon wrote: > > For manual updates of the zone file, I recommend using yyyymmdd rather > then yyyymmddhhmm, and if you modify it twice in one day just increment > the day (and hopefully real time will catch up to it again). > > For automatic updates (i.e. scripts that update zone files), I recommend > simply starting the serial number at 1 and incrementing it on every > update. Trying to make the serial number into a date for viewing ease > is overrated. > Cheers, Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message