[34154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Mon Jan 29 23:44:28 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:42:26 -0500 (EST)
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On 28 Jan 2001, Paul Vixie wrote:
> vince@penguin-power.com ("Vincent Power") writes:
>
> > the only thing that I had to do when upgrading between 8.x and 9.x was at
> > add $TTL line to the top of every zone file.
>
> BIND 8.2.3 makes you do that, too.
It complains about the absence of $TTL, but it doesn't "make you do it".
How many other sites got burned by non-RFC compliant SOA record formats
that used to work in every prior bind 8 / bind 4 version? I refuse to
believe I'm the only one. I had to write a pair of little perl scripts
and a bourne shell script to examine all our zone files and fix the ones
that needed fixing.
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