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