Dear Tyrasuki, thank you for letting us know. We will look into that.
Kind regards, Jana Jana Babovakova (she/her) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. On 20. 05. 25 18:47, Tyrasuki via Bird-users wrote:
Hi there,I am experiencing bird throwing a <FATAL> Unknown character error on my configuration files. I suspect this might be related to CRLF vs LF, as all the positions it reports unknown character seems to be EOL or blank spaces. I should mention I am currently writing my configuration on a Windows machine, but it has passed between Linux and Windows a couple times.As an example, trying to start BIRD 3.1.0 on an Alpine Linux edge box gives the following:ns2:~# birdbird: 2025-05-20 18:39:55.659 [0001] <FATAL> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:31 Unknown characterns2:~# head /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def # Local preference values define LP_UPSTREAM = 100; define LP_PEER = 200; define LP_DOWNSTREAM = 300; define LP_OTHER = 150; # ASNs define AS_SELF = 209718; define AS_BOGON = [ 0, ns2:~# if I merge the second line with the first line to look like this: define LP_UPSTREAM = 100;define LP_PEER = 200; I get ns2:~# birdbird: 2025-05-20 18:41:02.547 [0001] <FATAL> /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:61 Unknown characterSimilarly, on another box running Debian 12 with the pkg.labs.nic.cz repository, on BIRD 3.1.1:bird3:~# birdbird: 2025-05-20 18:42:01.451 [0001] <FATAL> /etc/bird/bird.conf:1:26 Unknown characterbird3:~# head /etc/bird/bird.conf router id 172.30.187.148; log "/var/log/bird.log" { error }; ipv6 table master6; ipv4 table master4; include "filters/netlist/*.list"; include "filters/AS.list"; include "define/*.def"; bird3~#Any suggestions would be welcome, as I am currently in the process of refractoring my routers from BIRD1 to BIRD3, and this has put me at a bit of a standstill. :)Kind regards, and thank you in advance for any response, Jori Vanneste / Tyrasuki
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