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<p>Hi, <br>
you are totally right, thanks for pointing it out.<br>
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Will fix it for future releases. <br>
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Happy routing,<br>
David<br>
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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))</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">David Petera (he/him) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.</pre>
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Filters section:</div>
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<div>In the example filter <strong>not_too_far</strong>,
the comparison uses the HTML entity <strong>&g</strong>t
instead of the literal <strong>></strong>
character. If you copy the example as-is
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then</em></strong></div>
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BIRD parses the configuration. Replacing
> with > fixes the problem:</div>
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documentation could be updated so the
example uses the correct > character,
to avoid confusing users who copy the
example directly.</div>
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