What's wrong with this zone file?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 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.  
> 
> I inspected the file over and over and in several different editors, trying
> to determine how these 2 records were different from all the others.  They
> looked good to me.  Finally, I downloaded the utility h2n (used in the
> book) and had it automatically create the files.  Named still issues the
> same complaints!  The records complained about are the same, though now on
> different lines in the file.
> 
> This is the complaint I get:
> 
> corona named[1011]: db.snydernet:25: IP Address error (192.168.0.08)
> corona named[1011]: db.snydernet:27: IP Address error (192.168.0.09)

	If you specify a leading zero the number is interperated as
	an octal number (base 8).

	08 and 09 are not valid octal numbers.

	h2n just copies the original address. Garbage In - Garbage Out.

	Mark
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