acl in forwarders and masters statements

[Olivier Kurzweg]

Right, bind complains about it when I send it a HUP signal, but returns no
error when I restart it completely.

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Olivier Kurzweg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ralf Hildebrandt [SMTP:R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:03 PM
> To:	'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject:	Re: acl in forwarders and masters statements
> 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:06:16PM -0000, Olivier Kurzweg wrote:
> > I've discovered (bind-8.9.3P5) that using access lists in forwarders{}
> or
> > masters{} statements is illegal. I've got no problem with that, but bind
> > does not even complain when I do so.
> > Example:
> > acl resolvers {
> > 	10.0.0.1;
> > };
> > options {
> > 	forwarders{
> > 		resolvers;
> > 	};
> > };
> > 
> > Returns no error from bind and "resolvers" is interprated as null.
> 
> 8.2.2p5 reports this as errors.
> IMHO it would be a useful feature, since I'd like to be able to group my
> forwarders and masters using an acl instead of typing the whole stuff over
> and over again.
>