Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:08:26 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named rejecting all kinds of serials Message-ID: <20020928170826.GY30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020928095129.M24391@mail.seattleFenix.net> References: <19116172.1033221870@tot.in.t-online.fr> <200209281348.g8SDm0aQ085852@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020928151840.GV30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020928095129.M24391@mail.seattleFenix.net>
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# benjamin@seattleFenix.net / 2002-09-28 09:51:29 -0700:
> * Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser@bellavista.cz) [020928 08:19]:
> > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-28 15:48:00 +0200:
> > > Bye the way, RFC 1912 is definitely recommended reading for
> > > anybody who operates a name server or who is responsible
> > > for zone files.
> >
> > Heh, RFC 1912 (and the others) are definitely recommended reading
> > for anybody who operates the BIND name server, because these RFCs
> > are very BIND specific. BIND is not DNS just like Sendmail is not
> > SMTP.
> >
> > Your advice was actually very much to the point, Janine obviously
> > runs BIND. I just find it hilarious that RFCs are a viable way of
> > documenting an implementation (as opposed to a principle).
>
> Bind is the official reference implementation by which others are
> measured. It makes plenty of sense to use Bind as the reference in
> the RFCs. Bind is both principle and implementation. Nothing
> hilarious about it.
Would it make sense to use snippets from sendmail.mc in RFC 2821?
RFCs should document protocols, configuration guides covering
specific programs should be stored elsewhere. Zone files are not
intrinsic to the DNS protocol.
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