Avahi optimisations

[Ivan Krstić]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Morgan Collett wrote:
> actually we are normally using b64 encoding so
> that brought it down to 28 bytes. Using SHA-256 it's 44 bytes in the  
> TXT
> record.


But _why_ are we encoding at all? TXT RDATA is one or more character  
strings, which are each a length octet followed by up to 255 arbitrary  
characters treated as a binary string. Am I misremembering the RFC?

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