Re: Format of TXT records in a DNS server?

You should put all the key-value pairs in one text record.

The DNS-SD protocol specification describes the format for Bonjour TXT records as consisting of "zero or more strings, packed together in memory without any intervening gaps or padding bytes for word alignment. The format of each constituent string within the DNS TXT record is a single length byte, followed by 0-255 bytes of text data."

Listing 2: TXT record formated as length byte, data, length byte, data...

\011txtvers=1\020path=/index.html\025note=Bonjour Is Cool!

On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Michael Bishop wrote:

Hello all,

I would like to add DNS-SD-style records to a test DNS server and I would like to use multiple key-value pairs for the TXT records.

Does anyone know if I need to make multiple TXT records or to somehow format all the KVPs in one record?

In other words, are the TXT records in the following, legal?

_the_service._tcp    PTR  Tester. _the_service._tcp

Tester. _the_service._tcp  SRV 0 0 1666 machine.testdomain.com.

                           TXT name=John

                           TXT dob=2006/12/21

Thanks ,

_ michael

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