semi-colon ";" in rdata for TXT records

Jack Tavares j.tavares at F5.com
Wed Oct 3 06:57:07 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.

For consistency of output. Dig output always prepends the "\".
I would think it would be nice if any client
that use ns_sprintrr() to get the same result that dig displays.

2 functions that do the same thing (more or less) should produce the
same output.

I think that is a worthy goal. 
--
jack



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