[Pdns-users] records.change_date field

[Roeland Nieuwenhuis]

RIPE for example wants you to do that for delegations. You can ofcourse
do that for the other domains aswell. Not that it is needed but it might
ease stuff up.

'Most' as in 'Most registries' wasnt a proper word here. Should he
'some', my apologies.

Regards,

Roeland Nieuwenhuis

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: David A. Ulevitch [mailto:davidu at everydns.net] 
Verzonden: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 7:12
Aan: Roeland Nieuwenhuis
Onderwerp: RE: [Pdns-users] records.change_date field



<quote who="Roeland Nieuwenhuis">
> Yep thats pretty much the case yep ;)
>
> What has to be there is a change_date in the SOA Serial form you use..

> Most registries demand a YYYYMMDDxx style notation so its useful to 
> store it like that there.

Who?

-davidu

>
> Regards,
>
> Roeland Nieuwenhuis
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com
> [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] Namens Ryan Baldwin
> Verzonden: vrijdag 4 juli 2003 16:38
> Aan: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Onderwerp: RE: [Pdns-users] records.change_date field
>
>
> So instead of parsing out the Content field, finding the serial, 
> incrementing it, and then resaving the record (which could be 
> fragile), all I have to do is slap a timestamp (tick count?) in the 
> change_date and PDNS will use that as the serial, eh?
>
> If that's the case, I'm a happy, happy camper.
>
> - ryan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roeland Nieuwenhuis [mailto:trancer at poweradmin.org]
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:37 AM
> To: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Subject: RE: [Pdns-users] records.change_date field
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Quoted from the manual:
>
> The fields have complicated and sometimes controversial meanings. The 
> 'serial' field is special. If left at 0, the default, PDNS will 
> perform an internal list of the domain to determine highest 
> change_date field of all records within the zone, and use that as the 
> zone serial number. This means that the serial number is always raised

> when changes are made to the zone, as long as the change_date field is

> being set.
>
> This is what the change_date field does. For PowerAdmin I am working 
> on a list that will also describe the database fields in PowerDNS, it 
> will be released within a month I guess.. Depends on the amount of 
> spare time I will have.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roeland Nieuwenhuis
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com
> [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] Namens Ryan Baldwin
> Verzonden: vrijdag 4 juli 2003 0:33
> Aan: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Onderwerp: [Pdns-users] records.change_date field
>
>
> Hi...
> Does anybody know where I can find some additional info about what 
> exactly each field in the pdns db backed is for?  I'm writing some 
> code for updating zones here, and I'm wondering if I have to "touch" 
> the records.change_date field, and, if so, what value it's expecting 
> (I imagine a tick count?).
>
> Thanks.
> - Ryan Baldwin
> Programmer
> Point2 Technologies Inc.
> www.point2.com
> www.point2agent.com
>
>
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