[dns-wg] Fw: Error in Document Ripe-192 (dns example)
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Piet Beertema
Piet.Beertema at cwi.nl
Mon Jun 16 15:13:51 CEST 2003
> > company.xy. SOA dns.company.xy. hostmaster.company.xy. ( > > 1998092900 ; Serial number > > 86400 ; Refresh 1 day > > 7200 ; Retry 2 hours > > 3600000 ; Expire 41.67 days > > 172800 ) ; Minimum TTL 2 days > > > > The closing bracket ")" should appear after the ; Minimum TTL 2 days. > > This error appears in several places in the document. > >This is perfectly valid syntax. > >Actually putting the closing bracket after the Minimum TTL 2 days would >render the zone file inparsable. > >Some explanation: > As you know, the brackets enable you to split a resource record over > multiple lines. So everything between the opening and closing > brackets should be seen as part of one RR. > > On the other hand everything after the ";" is treated as comments. So > putting the ")" behind the ";" would make it invisable to the parser > and the RR would not be ending at the appropriate place. Change it to: company.xy. SOA dns.company.xy. hostmaster.company.xy. ( 1998092900 ; Serial number 86400 ; Refresh 1 day 7200 ; Retry 2 hours 3600000 ; Expire 41.67 days 172800 ; Minimum TTL 2 days ) and it's perfectly valid again, but with the closing bracket not seemingly being part of the MinTTL field. Piet
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