From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddb34e4ee5e28db0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-17 15:28:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: those who know me have no need of my name Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: BIND Date: 17 Apr 2004 22:26:27 GMT Organization: earthfriends Message-ID: References: <20040414085518.06CE34C40D0@lovelace.ada-france.org> <87llkv344f.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7282 Date: 2004-04-17T22:26:27+00:00 List-Id: in comp.lang.ada i read: >The main problem with DNS is, that the specification does not really exists. surely the rfc's haven't disappeared. >It is mainly specified by the BIND source code. bind is the canonical reference implementation. it is not intended that it be the specification. >The main part is parsing old BIND configuration files. this is not terribly difficult -- each style (4.x vs 8/9) is well documented. -- a signature