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Subject: Re: Why does host and dig show a ; as \;?
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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.