From fa673343610592a4b35126fc68245647bb6e5efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Patrick=20Sodre=CC=81?= Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 23:04:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs on RFC1464 vs RFC1035 options --- website/source/docs/agent/options.html.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/source/docs/agent/options.html.md b/website/source/docs/agent/options.html.md index 172b5d3af2..0001bba177 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/agent/options.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/agent/options.html.md @@ -432,6 +432,8 @@ will exit with an error at startup. - Metadata keys must contain only alphanumeric, `-`, and `_` characters. - Metadata keys must not begin with the `consul-` prefix; that is reserved for internal use by Consul. - Metadata values must be between 0 and 512 (inclusive) characters in length. + - Metadata values for keys begining with `rfc1035-` are encoded verbatim in DNS TXT requests, otherwise + the metadata kv-pair is encoded according [RFC1464](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1464.txt). * `-pid-file` - This flag provides the file path for the agent to store its PID. This is useful for sending signals (for example, `SIGINT`