[dns-wg] Fw: Error in Document Ripe-192 (dns example)

* Olaf M. Kolkman <olaf at ripe.net> [2003-06-16 14:58:51 +0200]:
> > company.xy.             SOA     dns.company.xy. hostmaster.company.xy. (
> >                                 1998092900      ; Serial number
> >                                      86400      ; Refresh     1 day
> >                                       7200      ; Retry       2 hours
> >                                    3600000      ; Expire      41.67 days
> >                                     172800 )    ; Minimum TTL 2 days
> > 
> > The closing bracket ")" should appear after the ; Minimum TTL 2 days.
> > This error appears in several places in the document.
> 
> This is perfectly valid syntax. 
> 
> Actually putting the closing bracket after the Minimum TTL 2 days would
> render the zone file inparsable.
> 
> Some explanation:
>  As you know, the brackets enable you to split a resource record over
>  multiple lines.  So everything between the opening and closing
>  brackets should be seen as part of one RR.
> 
>  On the other hand everything after the ";" is treated as comments. So
>  putting the ")" behind the ";" would make it invisable to the parser and the
>  RR would not be ending at the appropriate place.

i think 'after' in this case means 'in the next line'.

regards,
-- 
Pawel