Splitting long strings in RRs using parentheses

[Bjørn Mork]

Sandro <lists at penguinpee.nl> writes:

> The bit from the first semicolon to the end of the line was missing.
>
> Is that expected behavior? I couldn't find any documentation regarding
> the usage of parentheses.

The master file format is mostly defined by RFC1035.  See
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035#section-5.1

So yes, that's expected behaviour.  You need to quote that ; unless you
want BIND to interpret it as the start of a comment



Bjørn