Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

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<alpine(_dot_)BSF(_dot_)2(_dot_)00(_dot_)1203061203020(_dot_)14450(_at_)joyce(_dot_)lan>,
 "John R. Levine" wr
ites:
> > > I was also going to mention that.  There's a lot of different formats for 
> zone
> > > file data, with BIND-ish master files being only one of them.
> > DNS master files are specified in RFC 1035 so it's wrong to imply they are
> > implementation-specific.
> They're not implementation specific, but they're also not required to 
> interoperate, as the wire format queries and responses are.
They are a interchange standard as per RFC 1034.

The standard format of master files allows them to be exchanged between
hosts (via FTP, mail, or some other mechanism); this facility is useful
when an organization wants a domain, but doesn't want to support a name
server.  The organization can maintain the master files locally using a
text editor, transfer them to a foreign host which runs a name server,
and then arrange with the system administrator of the name server to get
the files loaded.


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