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

[Mike Hoskins (michoski)]

On 3/31/16, 3:22 PM, "dns-operations on behalf of Dave Warren"
<dns-operations-bounces at dns-oarc.net on behalf of davew at hireahit.com>
wrote:


>On 2016-03-30 14:02, Mac Innes, Kiall wrote:
>>> Use YYYYMMDDnnn
>>
>> Won't that just push you over the limit for an unsigned 32 bit integer,
>>which is all that is allowed in a SOA's serial field?
>>
>> 4294967295
>> YYYYMMDDnnn
>
>Is the 2 needed in YYYY? Why not YYYMMDDnnn. Admittedly this will fall
>over sometime in 2429, but if I'm still dealing with this in a little
>over 400 years, that's acceptable tradeoff, and if someone else deals
>with it, well, if that's the worst our generation leaves behind, I'll
>make peace with it.

hey now, that won't satisfy every pedantic tool on the interwebz that
can't parse anything other than YYYYMMDDNN so it must be wrong.  :-)