diff --git a/doc/misc/migration b/doc/misc/migration index 4cb591e69b..6674ad8d77 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 $