DMARC Record issue

[Dave Warren]

On 2015-01-04 19:30, Chris Vaughan wrote:
> I have been given the task of implementing DMARC in our BIND servers due the recommendation of a security audit on our systems.
>
> Whenever I create the record in the forward server, and refresh the zone, it comes out in the slave zone with escape characters inserted in the TXT record.
>
> This occurs in every version of BIND that I have tried, from 9.7 up to 9.10.
>
> Primary test zone record:
>
> _dmarc.<domain>. IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=root at dns-test-1.<domain>; aspf=s; rf=afrf; sp=reject"
>
> Slave test zone record:
>
> _dmarc                  TXT     "v=DMARC1\; p=reject\; rua=root at dns-test-1.<domain>\; aspf=s\; rf=afrf\; sp=reject"
>

http://www.dmarc.org/faq.html#s_12 has some information on what is 
happening here.


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