BIND 9.3 problem with semi-colon comments in zone file

[M. Meadows]

Thanks for the feedback Mark. 
 
I agree that we misdiagnosed the problem. I was a little quick on the posting of this message. Sorry about that. 
 
Also, we're working on getting off 9.3.
 
Thanks again.
Marty 
 
> To: sun-guru at live.com
> CC: bind-users at isc.org
> From: marka at isc.org
> Subject: Re: BIND 9.3 problem with semi-colon comments in zone file
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:48:33 +1100
> 
> 
> In message <BLU156-w399B8D944D112ABD5D1049F3F70 at phx.gbl>, "M. Meadows" writes:
> > 
> > We've seen DNS reload issues with zone files with lines that begin with a
> > ";" that don't have a " " directly after the semi-colon. Tried a google
> > search to see why this happens. Didn't have much luck. Can someone explain? 
> > 
> > Thanks very much.
> > Martin Meadows
> 
> Firstly stop using BIND 9.3. It's no longer supported and has
> unfixed security bugs.
> 
> Secondly the problem is not reproducable based on you description
> with BIND 9.3.6-P2 and I can't remember a fix for as problem like
> this so you have most probably mis-diagnosed the problem. Perhaps
> you could post a actual problem file.
> 
> Mark
> 
> % cvs/9.3.x/bin/check/named-checkzone -D junk junk
> zone junk/IN: loaded serial 0
> junk. 0 IN SOA . . 0 0 0 0 0
> junk. 0 IN NS .
> OK
> % cat junk
> ;
> ;aaaa
> ; aaaa
> ;
> ;aaa
> ; aaaa
> @ 0 SOA . . 0 0 0 0 0
> @ 0 NS .
> % 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
 		 	   		  
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