Re: Escaping characters in queries

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:53:19AM -0600, Steve Brown wrote:

> So for testing I've added the following to my data file:
> 
> ##
> ## Reverse DNS
> ##
> .0.0/28.41.190.12.in-addr.arpa:12.190.41.6:ns1.a3dauto.com:259200
> ^4.0/28.41.190.12.in-addr.arpa:mail.a3dauto.com:259200
>
> [...]
> So my question is what am I missing?  I've tried various combinations
> of escaping slashes, using '/' vs. '\057', etc. to no avail.  What
> would be the correct manner of handling this bizarre delegation?

Your escaping is fine. Look at your records again. ^4.0/28 is not a
subdomain of 0.0/28. You need to either accept the whole 0/28 domain:
  .0/28.41.190.12.in-addr.arpa:12.190.41.6:ns1.a3dauto.com:259200
or individually do 0.0/28 and 4.0/28.

-Peff