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Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...


From: Marius Strom <marius () marius org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:52:18 -0600


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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