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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1
To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:02:17 +1100 (EDT)
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In some mail from Archie Cobbs, sie said:
> 
> > Converting the zone files from 4.X format to 8.x format might not be a
> > trivial task for some people. True, there is a little perl script which
> > will do the bulk of the work, but for an ISP who acts as secondary for
> > 1000's of their customers zones, they also have to make sure that they can
> > get the information in the right format from their customer! 
> 
> I thought that 8.x config files were different, but the zone file
> format was the same.. am I mistaken?

No.