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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,

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