On 2015-08-24 03:57, Daniel Ryslink wrote:
As for the SERIAL in SOA, it's just a good practice, it gives you the information about when the zone was published, and creates less problems when you transfer hosting of the domain to another nameserver. Basically yes, it's just a number, but there is no real good reason not to use the recommended format.
For me, the reason is that I don't track the serial number when generating zones. I don't have any need to track revision counts or dates for any other purpose, so I don't; I just generate a number which is guaranteed to be higher than any previous number based on the current time.
As a nod to poorly written DNS validation tools that tossed errors rather than warnings, I do start my numbers with YYYY.
Currently this limits me to around 2 updates a minute with the serial creation algorithm I'm using, but that's good enough for our typical customer, and we can offer dynamic zones to customers that need it. I don't think we have any of those left anymore.
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