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Mark Suter
suter at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Wed Feb 27 04:26:17 EST 2002
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Folks,
rick => Rick Phillips <rickp at universal.net.au>
greg => Greg Black <gjb at humbug.org.au>
rick> Pardon my ignorance but what is a "Zone File"
greg> It's an expression used by people who think the Buggy Internet
greg> Name Daemon is the only implementation of DNS software. The
greg> expression refers to a type of data file used by that software.
It is the *reference* implementation and the concept of a "zone" is
explicit in the standards. Dan Bernstein uses the phrase "traditional
traditional zone-file format" at the end of the following page.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html
Yours sincerely,
-- Mark John Suter | I know that you believe you understand
suter at humbug.org.au | what you think I said, but I am not sure
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