bind 8.3 apparently parses differently, much to the annoyance of Mark and
I.
Mark woke me up
this morning, well, afternoon, with a problem. He upgraded to bind
8.2.3 in the wake of the recent advisory and it was failing to load his
zone files. “It's dying in the parser,” he said. “It doesn't like the
comments!”
We hashed it out for a few minutes when it hit me. “Mark, for your
SOA records, do you have the opening parenthesis on its own
line?”
“Yes,” Mark said.
“Yea, I thought so.” I do the same thing. “Just humor me. Put it at the
end of the line.” I won't repeat the litany of swearing he did when that
worked. Mark then signed off, having to upgrade his zone files.
Gee, such a nice gratuitous change there guys.
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