Re: LOC stoopid question

[Christopher K Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com>]

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:

> so i decided to try to use LOC [...] and got 
>     Mar 12 16:52:34 rip named[119]: master zone "bogus.com" (IN)
>     rejected due to errors (serial 9903120)
> from bind 8.1.2 on freebsd 4.0-current.

Yeah, BIND doesn't actually implement the continuation line stuff in a
general way (just for SOA, I think).  The original theory was that it
would make it in sometime during the I-D life of the document that
became 1876.  It didn't.

> i also find this example 
>     loiosh.kei.com.           LOC   42 21 43.952 N 71 5 6.344 W
>                                     -24m 1m 200m

> in rfc 1876 confusing.  how is the continuation line working?  i see no
> punch in column 6?

That one's an oops; I should have explicitly noted that it's folded for
presentation.

> actually, i find the description of the zone file syntax in the rfc to be
> rather poor, as i have demonstrated by my inability to follow it. :-)

I'll agree with you; quite honestly, it stinks, and I can say that
because I wrote it.  I've tried to atone somewhat with
<URL:http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/> which should be more clear, but what
I really need to do is rewrite the RFC.  (Unfortunately I think the
nroff source was lost three machine moves ago; that might however be a
blessing in disguise.)

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