UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello guyz..

just want to know whether my doubt can be solve or not..maybe it

my company using yyyymmddxx for serial no format..and it cause problems..

first, my adjustments for moving n deleting domain name exceeded xxx per day, and it will cause and effect the yyyymmdd digits.

can all of u guyz can suggest me the best format that can be use to assign serial number? because from what i know that 20051206xx for year can't begin with '0' such as 051206xxxx..

Just use some more digits for x.
yyyymmddxxxxxx

And watch out for the y10k bug! If you constrain year to 4 digits, you will overflow a few thousand years from now and year will indeed be starting with a zero! What's worse, that will happen every 10,000 years.

from what i know, the serial format can only have 10 digits rite?

can it be 14-digits??

i've have read RFC for serial number and its not specify and justify whether zero can be the first digit..

can u guide me the correct answer?

I'm sorry. I forgot to use my mind-reading power to discover that this was a DNS problem. Yeah yyyymmddxx is all there is with DNS. You guys are making more than 100 DNS changes a day!? Maybe you should split up your zone files a bit. yyyymmddxx has always worked for me. I don't think we've ever hit 30 changes in a day.

rite, im work for ISP company @ malaysia and only my company that holds this DNS stuffs..but im not dealing directly with it. im just make a research for that.S.T.T.P

what u mean by split zone?can u make an example...?

The serial number is a number that changes when you modify a file, right? If you are changing the file 100's of time a day, maybe it is too big. So split it up. (On the other hand, if it only has one line and you changing the host name for one ip address a few hundred times a day, that won't work.)

No. I am not going to to type in large file and then type in a demo of splitting it.

ok..thanx bro..that help me enuff..thanx again