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:
 
 
In the example filter not_too_far, the comparison uses the HTML entity &gt 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@mail.ru