[Pdns-users] large TXT records?

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:07:28PM +0000, Jon Anderson wrote:

> Hi, I'm using the latest powerDNS under Linux with the mysql backend.
> 
> I'm trying to use powerdns to support IPSEC where encryption keys are embedded 
> in either KEY or TXT records. PowerDNS doesn't seem to support KEY type 
> records, so I tried a TXT type, but ran out of space at 256 characters.

hmm, you may want to try to make the content field 'TEXT' instead of
varchar.

> Does anyone know what needs to be done with PowerDNS to serve a TXT record 
> which would like like this in bind:

Drop the additional "'s btw, powerdns doesn't understand that syntax. Not
sure if it is an officially sanctioned syntax even.

Please let me know if this helps!

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