[34276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Feb 1 23:07:35 2001
Date: 1 Feb 2001 20:04:11 -0800
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Thu, 01 February 2001, Paul Vixie wrote:
> pi@vuurwerk.nl (Pim van Riezen) writes:
> > bogosity while updating 8.2.2-P7 to 8.2.3:
> >
> > (1) 8.2.3 Doesn't accept the "(" in the SOA string to be on the next line
> > after the IN SOA. Our script-generated zonefiles, about 45000 of them,
> > all had this.
>
> Neither do the relevant RFC's, or any other DNS implementation. Pre-8.2.3
> was simply _wrong_ to accept that syntax.
Is there any particular harm from accepting this syntax. It wouldn't be
the first time a RFC has been updated to match working code.
