Is there a standard for this file format?

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I run an Ubiquity Edge router which itself is based upon Vyatta (it does not matter, it is just in case someone knew the product).

The configuration file looks like that

(...)
service {
    dhcp-server {
        disabled false
        global-parameters "option rfc3118-auth code 90 = string;"
        global-parameters "option SIP code 120 = string;"
        global-parameters "option Vendor-specific code 125 = string;"
        hostfile-update disable
        shared-network-name LAN {
            authoritative disable
            subnet 192.168.10.0/24 {
                default-router 192.168.10.1
                dns-server 192.168.10.1
                domain-name example.com
                lease 86400
                ntp-server 192.168.10.1
                start 192.168.10.50 {
                    stop 192.168.10.254
                }
                static-mapping domotique {
                    ip-address 192.168.10.5
                    mac-address 26:e9:0c:53:40:41
                }
(...)

Would anyone know whether this is a well-known file/content formatting standard?

It remotely looks like a junction between JSON and YAML and I am pretty sure I have seen it already somewhere else.

Answer

I’ve found here that vyatta used XORP routing protocol in the past (at least in the past…) and so that’s probably the origin of this config configuration file. It uses XorpConfigParser perl module. But I didn’t have any luck finding a name for this format.

Wikipedia article about XORP config format

Juniper used very similar configuration format in JUNOS, they just referred to it as cli configuration format. These days they support JSON as well.

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