Re: AXFR from Bind oddities

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:19:18PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Erm, why not decode the RR lines properly and convert them into
> > TXT (') lines, e.g. with something like the attached simple Perl
> > utility?
> 
> Technically, that's a lossy conversion as tinydns-data's TXT line
> syntax doesn't allow you to control how a string is split into chunks.
>  E.g., your script would convert "foo" "bar" into "foobar", and I
> think DNSSEC validation would then fail if you tried to apply it to
> the resulting record.

That's true.  Still, if the original poster decides to use dig and
then Net::DNS::Zonefile to parse its output and *then* generate
a tinydns TXT (') record, he'd be no better off with more effort
expended :)

> That said, all uses of TXT records that I know of effectively
> concatenate the string chunks anyway, so they're semantically
> equivalent.

Also true.

G'luck,
Peter

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