question regarding SOA text format

[Cricket Liu]

> Perhaps this is just my misunderstanding, and if so, I appologise if I 
> waste anyone's time-I just wish to be clear on something.
> 
> While referring to the 4th edition of _DNS_and_Bind_ by Albitz and Liu, 
> the reference section gave the text format for the SOA as a single-line 
> entry, but with the serial, refresh, retry, expire, and minimum values 
> in parenthesises. I understand that if the values for a resource record 
> extend beyond a single line parenthesises are required to continue the 
> entry, but this gives the impression that maybe they are required even 
> in a single line entry. I looked at RFC-1035, but could not find the 
> text format given, and the 3rd edition gave it as a two-line entry, 
> which would necessitate the use of parenthesises. Are they required, or 
> was this a carry-over from the 3rd edition?

Hmm.  Looks like this got past us during QA.  There's no
reason to use parentheses if the entire record appears on
a single line.

I'll fix it in the next printing.

cricket