Andrew Newton wrote:
On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:54 PM, domainkeys-feedbackbase02(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
wrote:
What you're experiencing is a side-effect of the dig command. The
actual TXT
records do not contain the backslash, rather dig is inserting them
because...
well, I actually have no clue why it's inserting them as part of the
render,
but it's probably an escape mechanism related to named config syntax.
Are you sure about that? I did ask a co-worker who writes DNS code
about this, and he was quite skeptical about dig being the problem. Is
there a bug report from ISC?
No, Mark is right. This is an artifact of dig and host's
rendering. The actual RR doesn't have the escaped semicoln.
My guess is that it has something to do with shell syntax
issues for scripting (especially host), but that's only a
guess.
Mike