Re: rsync vs. axfr-clarify (was: in support of axfr-clarify)

[Bruce Campbell <bc-namedroppers@vicious.dropbear.id.au>]

On 10 Dec 2002, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> Bruce Campbell writes:
> > There is a set standard for zone (MASTER) files in RFC1035 section 5
>
> Sorry to bother you with the facts, but the BIND company keeps changing
> their zone-file format. You're kidding yourself if you think that the
> format is stable.

Lets see.  I stated that there is a set, implementation non-specific,
standard for zone files.  You replied that a specific implementation, the
'BIND company', keeps changing their zone file format.

Ergo, to use your methods of summarising, you are in support of AXFR
between different nameserver implementations, and possibly different
versions of the one implementation.

( Although to play Devils Advocate, after downloading sample BIND
  distributions and checking the example zones, the synxtax of the zone
  file that BIND will accept has not changed between BIND 4.8 and 9.2.2rc1
)

> Furthermore, zone files are only part of the BIND
> configuration; the named.conf format is even less stable.

Point being?

( as in, we're talking about zone files, not server configuration files )

--==--
Bruce.


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