Re: [webmin-l] BIND serial number style suggestion

[David D. <da...@en...>]

Danny Sauer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:38:17PM +0000, David Derrick wrote:
> 
>>Can an option be added to the BIND module to use the Unix timestamp as 
>>the serial number rather than a date based serial number or a running 
>>number? Sometimes it's useful to see the time a zone was updated.
> 
> 
> Not to downplay the usefulness of such a timestamp, but 1) unix timestamps
> mean almost nothing to me when *I* look at them and 2) ls -l shows the
> modification time in human-readable format... :)

Yes but if the zone file's last modified time is later than the serial 
number then I know that someone's been an idiot and hacked the file 
manually without changing the serial :D

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