Dear Monks, i tried adding a TXT record via Net::DNS to a testdomain but having problems with escaping the semicolon. 
my $txtdata = "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; t=y;p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQAFGQUAA4GNADCBi
+QKBgQDwWV9npEVjm10XoR1NIx174X/SR+BW8yd4RaXMk+pSDwNx0bFK8fPCXf7tLtFbjC
+mYldyhsrnrcloWPVlJkAy41xaTGUcXWpC2Onr/ScbkXa9cuREv4Fy4YmMpHoBKSHoE2JI
+8wBEe4oOoHPojT/b+HTNoZmxfkrYqk5eN5jnUewIDAQAB";

my $a = ";";
my $b = "\\" . ";";

# trying to escape the ;
$txtdata =~ s/$a/$b/g;

my $update = Net::DNS::Update->new("domain.com");
$update->push("update", rr_add("porgy._domainkey.domain.com 600 TXT '$
+txtdata'"));
$update->sign_tsig("keyname", "keysign");
my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new;
$res->nameservers("ns.domain2.com");
my $reply = $res->send($update);

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If i do a 
host -a porgy._domainkey.domain.com ns.domain2.com

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I get the TXT record back, but the semicolon is more than once escaped as: 
"v=DKIM1\\\; k=rsa\\\; t=y\\\;p=MIGfMA0GC..."

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Anyone is seeing an error on my side ? Thanks

In reply to Create a TXT record for DKIM using Net::DNS by nethawk

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