Bird 1.3.3 - Reserved keywords?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:39:04AM -0500, Michael Vallaly wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I migrated some of our routers to Bird 1.3.3 yesterday and noticed that
> I was getting a syntax error in some of our previously working bird
> 1.3.2 configurations.
> 
> Seems the word "external" is now a reserved word in 1.3.3?
> 
> /etc/bird.conf
> <snip>
> 6 :
> 7 : # Configure Additional Routing Tables
> 8 : table internal;
> 9 : table external;
> 10:
> </snip>
> 
> The configuration above seems to work fine in 1.3.2, and
> generates a syntax error on line 9 in bird 1.3.3.
> 
> Just wanted to make sure this was expected behavior.

Yes, although we generally try to not break working configs in minor
versions, the way how BIRD config parser is done causes that any new
config option may collide with user defined names like variables or
table/filter/protocol names.

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