[dns-wg] Fw: Error in Document Ripe-192 (dns example)

> 
> 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.





-- Olaf

---------------------------------| Olaf M. Kolkman
---------------------------------| RIPE NCC