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[Paul Howarth]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:59:31 +0000
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> opined:
> 
>>David Cary Hart wrote:
>>
>>>I assume that you new Extras build includes gzip support. I'm
>>>thinking in terms of my site's rbldnsd tutorial for FC. Before I muck
>>>it up can you explain why anyone would want their zone files
>>>compressed?
>>
>>Probably because they're mirroring them from somewhere else that has 
>>huge zone files and it saves them some bandwidth.
>>
> 
> Thanks.

The upstream author's reasoning can be read here actually:
http://www.corpit.ru/pipermail/rbldnsd/2005q4/000566.html

Cheers, Paul.