[erlang-patches] [erlang-bugs] TXT record decoding bug in inet_dns

[Geoff Cant]

"Matthew Dempsky" <matthew.dempsky@REDACTED> writes:

> 2008/10/6 Geoff Cant <nem@REDACTED>:
>> inet_dns incorrectly decodes the RData for TXT records as RData instead
>> of [Length | Text] = RData, Text. (The RData for TXT records is encoded
>> as <<Len:8, Text:Len/binary>>).
>
> RDATA for TXT records allows more than one character string.

Good point - in which case txt records should decode to a list of
strings. Updated patch attached (encoding and decoding) against R12B-4
(supercedes previous patches).

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Cheers,
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Geoff Cant