From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:24:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 2.6. TXT records are no longer automatically split.
X-Git-Tag: v9.2.5rc1~28^2~29
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2.6. TXT records are no longer automatically split.
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diff --git a/doc/misc/migration b/doc/misc/migration
index 4cb591e69bd..6674ad8d77b 100644
--- a/doc/misc/migration
+++ b/doc/misc/migration
@@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ line.
 $GENERATE: The "$$" construct for getting a literal $ into a domain
 name is deprecated.  Use \$ instead.
 
+2.6. TXT records are no longer automatically split.
+
+Some versions of BIND accepted strings in TXT RDATA consisting of more
+than 255 characters and silently split them to be able to encode the
+strings in a protocol conformant way. You may now see errors like this
+        dns_rdata_fromtext: local.db:119: ran out of space
+if you have TXT RRs with too longs strings. Make sure to split the
+string in the zone data file at or before a single one reaches 255
+characters.
 
 3. Interoperability Impact of New Protocol Features
 
@@ -243,4 +252,4 @@ necessary, the umask should be set explicitly in the script used to
 start the named process.
 
 
-$Id: migration,v 1.45 2004/03/05 05:04:53 marka Exp $
+$Id: migration,v 1.46 2004/11/22 22:24:37 marka Exp $