FW: RFC1982 on Serial Number Arithmetic

Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:28:44 -0700


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More RFC humor (I work with business types all day long, so you guys are
the only ones I can share this with):

However, older, superseded, implementations are
known to have treated the serial number as a simple unsigned integer,
with no attempt to implement any kind of "sequence space arithmetic",
however that may have been interpreted, and further, ignoring the
requirement that the value wraps. Nothing can be done with these
implementations, beyond extermination.

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>Subject: RFC1982 on Serial Number Arithmetic
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>A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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> RFC 1982:
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> Title: Serial Number Arithmetic
> Author: R. Elz & R. Bush
> Date: August 1996
> Mailbox: kre@munnari.OZ.AU, randy@psg.com
> Pages: 7
> Characters: 14,440
> Updates: 1034, 1035
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> URL: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1982.txt
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>This memo defines serial number arithmetic, as used in the Domain Name
>System. The DNS has long relied upon serial number arithmetic, a
>concept which has never really been defined, certainly not in an IETF
>document, though which has been widely understood. This memo supplies
>the missing definition. It is intended to update RFC 1034 and RFC
>1035. This RFC is the product of the DNS IXFR, Notification, and
>Dynamic Update Working Group of the IETF.
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>This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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