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package does have BXA export approval, but the licensing strings on the dnssafe code are a bit unpleasant. The crypto is easy to restore and bind will run without it - just without full dnssec support. Obtained from: The Internet Software Consortium (www.isc.org)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
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<TITLE>BIND Comment Syntax</TITLE>
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<H2>BIND Configuration File Guide--Comment Syntax</H2>
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<HR>
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<A NAME="Syntax"><H3>Syntax</H3></A>
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<PRE>
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/* This is a BIND comment as in C */
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// This is a BIND comment as in C++
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# This is a BIND comment as in common Unix shells and perl
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</PRE>
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<A NAME="Usage"><H3>Definition and Usage</H3></A>
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<P>Comments may appear anywhere that whitespace may appear in a BIND
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configuration file.</P>
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<P>C-style comments start with the two characters <CODE>/*</CODE>
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(slash, star) and end with <CODE>*/</CODE> (star, slash). Because
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they are completely delimited with these characters, they can be used
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to comment only a portion of a line or to span multiple lines.</P>
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<P>C-style comments cannot be nested. For example, the following is
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not valid because the entire comment ends with the first
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<CODE>*/</CODE>:
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<PRE>
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/* This is the start of a comment.
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This is still part of the comment.
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/* This is an incorrect attempt at nesting a comment. */
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This is no longer in any comment. */
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</PRE>
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<P>C++-style comments start with the two characters <CODE>//</CODE>
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(slash, slash) and continue to the end of the physical line. They
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cannot be continued across multiple physical lines; to have one
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logical comment span multiple lines, each line must use the
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<CODE>//</CODE> pair. For example:
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<PRE>
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// This is the start of a comment. The next line
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// is a new comment, even though it is logically
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// part of the previous comment.
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</PRE>
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<P>Shell-style (or perl-style, if you prefer) comments start with the
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character <CODE>#</CODE> (hash or pound or number or octothorpe or
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whatever) and continue to the end of the physical line, like C++
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comments.</P> For example:
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<PRE>
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# This is the start of a comment. The next line
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# is a new comment, even though it is logically
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# part of the previous comment.
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</PRE>
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<P><STRONG>WARNING:</STRONG> you cannot use the <CODE>;</CODE>
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(semicolon) character to start a comment such as you would in a zone
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file. The semicolon indicates the end of a configuration statement,
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so whatever follows it will be interpreted as the start of the next
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statement.</P>
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<HR>
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<CENTER><P>[ <A HREF="config.html">BIND Config. File</A>
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| <A HREF="http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/">BIND Home</A>
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| <A HREF="http://www.isc.org/">ISC</A> ]</P></CENTER>
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<HR>
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<ADDRESS>
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Last Updated: $Id: comments.html,v 1.5 1999/09/15 20:28:00 cyarnell Exp $
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