Scott quoted someone who said:
message: I have run into what appears to be a BIND limitation with
long TXT records. These records are limited to 255 characters per
_line_,
That's not strictly true. You can request that
ns3.sony.com provide you with the text record for
nothere.corpnet.sel.sony.com; the payload for that
record is 412 bytes. Ns3.sony.com is running BIND,
more specifically named version 8.4.4. If the
software making the request is sufficiently intelligent
to perform a query retry using TCP, you will receive
the entire record.
Querying using DiG 9.2.4, for example, will cause the
output to begin with the comment:
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
Hope this clarifies the way things work,
Len