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Date:      Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:42:05 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does host and dig show a ; as \;?
Message-ID:  <493ECA0D.7090901@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <004901c95a1c$5c6b2680$15417380$@org>
References:  <004901c95a1c$5c6b2680$15417380$@org>

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On 2008-12-09 17:36, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Why does the host command, dig, and a named_db.dump all show a ; as \; in a
> TXT record?

AFAICS the semicolon is a comment character in BIND software (at least
in all config files and so on), and therefore it needs to be escaped.



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