Confirmed, and updated the doc with the RFC reference.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 16, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Strings in TXT records have a single-octet length field. When returning
> a longer
> >> string, or when one wants to explicitly segment a TXT RDATA into
> multiple strings
> >> one returns:
> >>
> >>        txt.example. IN TXT "first string" "second string" ... "last
> string"
> >>
> >> with the wire RDATA being:
> >>
> >>        <len1>first string<len2>second string...<lenN>last string
> >>
> >
> > Ah, you mean basically do what RFC4408, S 3.1.3 says? I *completely*
> > didn't understand that from the above... I still think that it would
> > be useful to have an example of multiple strings which meet the above
> > (preferably in "zone file" format) but I'll accept that I was just
> > being dumb and clear my DISCUSS.
>
> Yes, but I'm not an author, that's just how I read that text,
> so I'll let the authors confirm.  Perhaps a reference to:
>
>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4408#section-3.1.3
>
> i,e. "Section 3.1.3 of rfc4408" would help other readers.
>
> --
>         Viktor.
>
>
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