From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 10:11:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dc.ispro.net (c14pc21.dc.turkuamk.fi [193.166.135.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6AAE37B691 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@dc.ispro.net) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by dc.ispro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA95681; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:11:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@dc.ispro.net) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:11:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Dave Dunaway Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind and the limit of serial number ??? In-Reply-To: <20000423112259.A14653@nivek.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well ours is still working fine ! thats why I asked this question, we did not realize that it went over 32 bit boundary how can I understand if there is a problem or not? Evren On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Dave Dunaway wrote: > > Put a number bigger than 2^32 and it will overflows. > > > is the bind have 32 bit unsigned integer variable for the serial > > number part of the dns records? > > if yes, it means that we cant have a number bigger than > > 4294967296 right? what happens if we have a bigger number? > > then bind takes it like modulus 2^32? or it is forbidden to > > have a bigger number? > > -- > > Dave. > > > Dave Dunaway > bela@nivek.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message