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From: mohta@NECOM830.CC.TITECH.AC.JP (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: decimals in the serial field
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Date: 17 Jun 91 14:33:49 GMT
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>    Believe it or not, in BIND "32.1" is the same as "320001".  The exact
>    interpretation of "." is "000".  Quite seriously (I looked at the code).
> 
>    This means that 32.10 > 32.9 by a very significant margin:
>    32.10 == 3200010 and 32.9 == 320009, a order of magnitude difference.

> The right solution to this is DON'T USE THE x.y FORMAT FOR SERIAL, the
> spec says a single integer.

Isn't it a good idea to use numbers like 320001, 320002, 320003, ... , 320010,
... , 320100, ... and then 330001 without "."?

							Masataka Ohta