[dns-operations] Recommended zone serial number format for over 100 changes / day

[Mark Andrews]

In message <CAHW=2z7rNcZjCBru_NyaWPE_iE=s8ArdJQDjWGSn9QAXDQ2+PQ at mail.gmail.com>, Roy Hooper writes:
> Even with thousands of updates a day, and 86400 seconds per day, there's
> plenty of headroom to handle same-second updates when they do happen...
> 
> One approach is to use this pseudocode:
> 
> if time() > current_serial:
>    new_serial = time()
> else:
>    new_serial = serial + 1
> 
> This handles both clock rewind scenarios (that never happens in the real
> world...) as well as multiple updates in the same second.
> It also simply becomes a counter if you have over 86400 updates/day,
> although in that case the suggestion to just use a counter makes more sense
> so you can start at 1.

We do all that.  note the above code has a race condition in it.
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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