PTR format question

[Warren Kumari]

On Mar 21, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <mailman.897.1269129914.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> groups <groups at obsd.us> wrote:
>
>> I did not know there were MACROs available.. as I just inheirited  
>> this
>> legacy system less than one month ago..
>
> There aren't macros, just one special tool for creating a block of DNS
> entries that contain sequential numbers in them.

<pedant>
Well  I think that you could make a reasonable case that $GENERATE is  
a macro:
"An abstraction whereby a certain textual pattern is replaced  
according to a defined set of rules"
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)
</pedant>


Sorry, just being difficult,
W
>
> What does it being a legacy system have to do with it?  It's running a
> recent version of BIND, that's all that matters for this.
>
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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