Re: [Uta] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-uta-smtp-tlsrpt-18: (with DISCUSS)

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Apr 16, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> I throw away the one that contains 'bar', fair enough, got it. What I don't
>> understand is what a record would look like which is a single record (#2), but
>> that contains multiple strings (#3). Can you provide an example of a TXT record
>> with multiple strings? I don't *think* that this is just me being dense, and so
>> I think that the document needs to better explain this / include the example.
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> 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:
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>         txt.example. IN TXT "first string" "second string" ... "last string"
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> with the wire RDATA being:
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>         <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.

W

> --
>         Viktor.



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