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                             Parenthetical, a bug

bind 8.3 apparently parses differently, much to the annoyance of Mark and I.

Mark [1] woke me up this morning, well, afternoon, with a problem. He
upgraded to bind 8.2.3 in the wake of the recent advisory and it was failing
to load his zone files. “It's dying in the parser,” he said. “It doesn't like
the comments!”

We hashed it out for a few minutes when it hit me. “Mark, for your SOA
records, do you have the opening parenthesis on its own line?”

“Yes,” Mark said.

“Yea, I thought so.” I do the same thing. “Just humor me. Put it at the end
of the line.” I won't repeat the litany of swearing he did when that worked.
Mark then signed off, having to upgrade his zone files.

Gee, such a nice gratuitous change there guys.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/

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