What's wrong with this zone file?

[bmanning at ISI.EDU]

> 
> Try using 192.168.0.9  instead of 192.168.0.09   
> 
> On 16 Jun 1999 11:26:23 -0700, Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Don't use 0 in front of the number. It is .2, not .02.
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >Steve Snyder wrote:
> >> 
> >> Following the directions in the 3rd edition of "DNS and BIND" I
> >> hand-created a zone database from the data in my /etc/hosts file.  When I
> >> started named, it consistently complained about the same 2 records.
> >> 
> >> earth                IN  A     192.168.0.04
> >> mercury              IN  A     192.168.0.02
> >> saturn               IN  A     192.168.0.07
> >> uranus               IN  A     192.168.0.08
> >> neptune              IN  A     192.168.0.09
> >> 
> >> Named always objects to the "uranus" and "neptune" IN records.  If I
> >> comment-out these 2 records, named will start up without error.
> >> 
> >> Can anyone tell me why these 2 specific records are considered
> >> unacceptable?  Thank you.
> >> 
> >> ***** Steve Snyder *****

	These other good people have told you what but not why.
	And you did ask why.  Ahem...

	"...leading zeros cause the octet to be interpreted as
	 an octal value, not decimal." 

	It should be clear that octal values of 8 and 9 are meaningless.

--bill