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0 pointstptacek5y ago0 comments

1035 is The DNS RFC. Using BIND's archaic zone file format is in no sense a requirement to interoperate with other DNS protocol servers.

You could argue that the IETF should have another RFC specifying the zone file format; what could be wrong with standardizing a file format? Standardize my iTunes Library database file while you're at it; that would help far more people.

But it has nothing to do with provisioning DNS service, and the claim that BIND zone files have any kind of special status is bogus, despite what 1035 mistakenly says.

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belorn5y ago

> Standardize my iTunes Library database file

There is a de facto standardized computer file format for playlists, called Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator, and it is supported by iTunes together with basically every music player and device cable of playing music. It is one of the few file formats where you can take a file that is 20 years old and it still works to create a play list anywhere.

teddyh5y ago

Does RFC 1035 specify that the master zone file format must be used to provision DNS service?

If it does not, then RFC 1035 just happens to specify both the DNS protocol and a canonical ASCII serialization of DNS zone data.

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