TXT record parsing errors due to special characters

[Habbie]

We use pdns 3.1 (2607) as slave and we see several errors like:

pdns[777]: Exception building answer packet (Unable to parse DNS TXT '"v=spf1 a include:spf.emailfiltering.com all"') sending out servfail

The problem happens, when the - is not a hyphen-minus, but a UTF-8 encoded en-dash:

Fetching the record from the master (bind) works fine:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 3600 IN TXT
"v=spf1 a include:spf.emailfiltering.com \226\128\147all"

Of course the SPF records seems to be wrong (copy-paste error).

But shouldn't pdns deliver the record although there is binary data?

[Habbie]

Author: peter
duplicate of #541; the fix committed for 541 should fix your use case too. Closing this one.