Documentation typo in filter example (bird-2.17.1.html#filters)

[David Petera]

Hi,
you are totally right, thanks for pointing it out.

Will fix it for future releases.

Happy routing,
David

PS: It was caused by incomplete transformation of the code block in the 
docs... We actually plan to consolidate our documentation pipeline soon 
so it is more simple, future-proof and resilient and hopefully such 
errors will happen less often))

David Petera (he/him) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

On 3/16/26 13:55, Evgeniy Gaydarenko via Bird-users wrote:
> Hello,
> I noticed a small typo in the HTML documentation for BIRD 2.17.1, in 
> the Filters section:
> https://bird.nic.cz/doc/bird-2.17.1.html#filters
> In the example filter *not_too_far*, the comparison uses the HTML 
> entity *&g*t instead of the literal *>* character. If you copy the 
> example as-is into a BIRD configuration file, the line
> */if rip_metric &gt 10 then/*
> causes a “Unknown character” error when BIRD parses the configuration. 
> Replacing &gt with > fixes the problem:
> /*if rip_metric > 10 then*/
> It would be helpful if the documentation could be updated so the 
> example uses the correct > character, to avoid confusing users who 
> copy the example directly.
> Best regards,
> Evgeniy Gaydarenko
> gaydarenko at mail.ru
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/attachments/20260319/a7741877/attachment.htm>