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update Y2K comment

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Mark Andrews
2007-04-26 06:14:26 +00:00
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
- PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-->
<!-- File: $Id: Bv9ARM-book.xml,v 1.318 2007/04/24 01:54:36 marka Exp $ -->
<!-- File: $Id: Bv9ARM-book.xml,v 1.319 2007/04/26 06:14:26 marka Exp $ -->
<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<title>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</title>
@@ -10923,12 +10923,12 @@ zone "example.com" {
<title>Incrementing and Changing the Serial Number</title>
<para>
Zone serial numbers are just numbers-they aren't date
Zone serial numbers are just numbers &mdash; they aren't date
related. A lot of people set them to a number that represents a
date, usually of the form YYYYMMDDRR. A number of people have been
testing these numbers for Y2K compliance and have set the number
to the year 2000 to see if it will work. They then try to restore
the old serial number. This will cause problems because serial
date, usually of the form YYYYMMDDRR. A number of people
tested these numbers for Y2K compliance and set the number
to the year 2000 to see if it would work. They then tried to restore
the old serial number. This caused problems because serial
numbers are used to indicate that a zone has been updated. If the
serial number on the slave server is lower than the serial number
on the master, the slave server will attempt to update its copy of