Re: DNS stuff

[wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <42EA99B7.8060407@xxxxxxxx> Michael Thomas <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andrew Newton wrote:
>
>>
>> On a related note, I do not see in dkim_base that multiple character
>> strings in TXT records are to be concatenated before parsing.  [...]
>
> I might also add that bind is much less than informative when you have a
> TXT record which spans more than 256 bytes in one set of ""'s. Something
> to the effect of "out of memory" or something similarly unhelpful.  :/

And djbdns silently splits larger text strings into substrings of at
most 127 (not 255) characters.  GoDaddy's "Total DNS Control" silently
truncates all TXT records to 128 bytes.  I dunno what other weird
things are out there, but I'm sure there are a bunch.


-wayne