[34155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marius Strom)
Mon Jan 29 23:54:53 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:52:18 -0600
From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Oh, the regexes were many and nasty. I was burned back on my personal
nameserver a month or so ago on the 9.0.0 release, and fixed it by hand.
The 300 or so domains hosted on the work machines.. well, gross regexes.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0500, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
> 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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