8.2.2 -> 8.2.3 Zone File Problems

[James Raftery]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:12:32PM -0500, James Snow wrote:
> The cause of this was the positioning of the leading parenthesis after
> the SOA line. For example:
> 
> 	@ IN SOA ns.domain.com. snow.domain.com.
> 	(    2001012901
> 		 ... )
> 
> I don't have a preference for either one but I am curious to know if
> there is a reason for this. (Other than just an oddity in parsing the
> zone file.)

The reason is that the SOA above is invalid and versions prior to 8.2.3
just didn't realise it was invalid.

james
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