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

From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:42:05 +0100

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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