Bug? - Undetected Syntax Error

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200005181359.IAA20460 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov>,
Barry Finkel  <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>I am running BIND 8.2.2-P5 on Solaris 5.6 .  In my Win2k test network
>I wanted to test dynamic updates from one specific Win2k box, so I added
>this line to the two zone statements (forward and reverse):
>
>     allow-update(192.168.1.23);
>
>BIND did not complain about the statement, but it did not allow updates
>from that node.  I rechecked the BIND book, and I changed the statement 
>to 
>
>     allow-update{192.168.1.23};
>
>and BIND complained about a syntax error.  I added the missing ";"
>
>     allow-update{192.168.1.23;};
>    
>and dynamic updates were allowed.  Is it a bug in BIND that it did not
>complain about my original line that had parentheses instead of braces?
>Thanks.

Sure seems like a bug to me.  You should report it to the developers (check
the www.isc.org web site to find out the proper way to report bugs).

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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