Re: Sign zone escapes semicolon for RR 257 (CAA) and RR 256 (URI)

2017-05-10 Thread Mark Andrews
"\;" and ";" are the same thing on the wire. To get a '\' you need to to '\\'. RFC 1035 fails to properly describe a quoting mechanism that works as it leaves out details like to get a \ you need to escape the \ like \\. That said we can remove the backslash in this case. In message

Sign zone escapes semicolon for RR 257 (CAA) and RR 256 (URI)

2017-05-10 Thread Dion Bosschieter
Hi, Whenever I try to sign a zone (using dnssec-signzone) with a CAA record in it that has a semicolon in the value part of the RDATA like the following RDATA: 0 issue ";" Bind escapes the semicolon so the signed zonefile wil have the following RDATA for the same CAA record: 0 issue "\;" Even