In article <20200314203823.37938.qm...@f3-external.bushwire.net> you write: >On 14Mar20, Paul Vixie allegedly wrote: > >> yes. this code had to run on a PDP-11. > >Bummer. Based on this, is it reasonable to assume a TXT only holds >7-bit ASCII then? Not until the Experimental RFC1464 do we finally >find explicit mention of a code set for the contents of a TXT in a >very specific use-case.
If you stuff arbitrary octal escapes into your txt records, it works with all of the DNS software I know. Back when I was trying to figure out how to do IPv6 DNSBLs efficiently I did an overclever design that stored the ranges in a B-tree with each node being a large TXT record full of binary glop. It worked OK. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations