CRLF as line terminator in zone file

[Marc Lampo]

Hello,

not particularly a "bind" solution, but would it be an option to get rid
of the
'\r' right after the transfert phase ?

for file in --downloaded-files--
do
        sed '/.$/s///' $file >/tmp/$$ && mv /tmp/$$ $file
done

Sure, perl could get the job done as well.

Hope this helps,

Marc Lampo

Joe Abley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a client who has previously been running NT ports of bind 4.9.
> In the absense of a bind 8 port for NT, he has just run up a FreeBSD
> 3.3 box with bind 8.2.1.
>
> His zone files (around 5000 of them) are generated from a database on
> an NT machine, and are stored in a directory on the FreeBSD box which
> is made available to NT using samba 2.0.5a.
>
> This is all fine and dandy, except that this method of zone file
> generation results in files with CRLF (\r\n) line terminations rather
> than simply LF (\n). This confuses the zone file parser in
> src/bin/named/db_load.c.
>
> Changing the way that the zone files are produced is a pain for various
> NT reasons :) My stop-gap solution was to patch db_load.c, such
> that a '\r' read from a zone file is treated the same as a ' ' or
> a '\t'.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a well-defined solution
> to this problem already?
>
> If not, I will nice-up the patch (so that it's disabled by default
> and activated by an option). Would anybody be interested in testing
> this?
>
> [I don't _think_ this is an apalling newbie FAQ, since I can't find
> any reference to "CRLF" in the archives. Apologies if I'm mistaken :)]
>
> Joe

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