* Olaf M. Kolkman <olaf@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