What is the text length limit for ISC BIND zone record names and data?

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Published on 2010-03-24T19:03:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 19:13 UTC
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One of my users wants to have a TXT record for DKIM, which apparently is very long. The system that automates zone file creation has a very small limit on name and data field length; I can easily increase this, but I may as well set it to the maximum that BIND allows; but what is it?

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