semi-colon ";" in rdata for TXT records

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Oct 3 05:08:33 UTC 2007


In article <fdtc77$1dfg$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Jack Tavares" <j.tavares at F5.com> wrote:

> Would it be unreasonable to request a change to ns_sprintrr() to prepend
> the "\" ?

Why?  As you noticed, the string is interpreted the same way with or 
without the "\", so it's not needed.

A more serious problem would be if it fails to prepend "\" before 
backslash or doublequote.

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