It's been awhile since I've had to directly edit configuration files, and it
no longer may be true with Bind 8; but this drove me nuts the first time I
set up a Linux/Redhat 5.x DNS server.
Though I had everything right, DNS would not parse my zone files...
I ran across a note talking about tabs and and tab expansions vis-a-vis
bind... and sure enough switching editors solved the problem. Nothing else
changed.
Offhand I don't remember if I was using VI or Emacs at the time, but the
problem was definitely CTRL-I's (or since my memory is foggy on this, the
lack of them).
-JMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 4:00 PM
To: Jose M. Sanchez
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Subject: Re: Help.. Redhat DNS and Microsoft NT DNS
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:34:10PM -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> Vi inserts true TAB characters (Ctrl-I) into the file.
> BIND chokes on this. Most of the other editors pad the tabs out...
> (or was it the other way around?)
Huh? Where specifically does bind choke on a tab? I use tabs
in the zone files and the main configuration files for bind 4.x and bind
8.x all the time. I've had no problems. I'm unaware of anywhere that
bind treats tabs different from any other whitespace.
> -JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 12:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Help.. Redhat DNS and Microsoft NT DNS
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:25 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Help.. Redhat DNS and Microsoft NT DNS
> >
> >
> > 1) Yes it does work.
> > 2) Clue: when editing your DNS config files DO NOT use VI.
> > tabs/tab expansion -is- very important when editing
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I've never had a problem with bind doing this.
> > the DNS files
> > I initially wasted a lot of time discovering this,
> > thinking that
> > something was wrong with DNS.
> What type of symptons do you see? The only editor I've used for my named
> files is VI and I haven't seen any problems.
> Greg
Mike
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