Why does host and dig show a ; as \;?

[Larry Rosenman]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> 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.
>
This is in the responses as shown:
$ host -t txt blueprint._domainkey.lombardi.com

blueprint._domainkey.lombardi.com descriptive text "v=DKIM1\; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDCkAwTHQf0339ugaLhgZWCfGWvgzB92PrD03kpk/RsFv5novZZT0QnL2zVXyBFHe2BjbVrfOl9oF33A3hniVrt89iz3dhZD9NWiYsBZl5qYhTfNe7Ia8ZeBb+PuswQnEWG5/aFmkAoDj2L6RHUJlAyjDo4dxCbqnDiFUiV4BqMQQIDAQAB\;"

But the actual record does NOT have the \ in it.

This was confusing to me.



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