From b87b8e1d212b43f225891570ebc5045c6331dd8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W.C.A. Wijngaards" <wouter@nlnetlabs.nl>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:16:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix #254: Unquoted "value" rdata for CAA records fail to
 validate.   Follows the long string unquoted syntax from RFC8659, section
 4.1.1.

---
 Changelog | 2 ++
 rr.c      | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 00f692a0..476b9c18 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 	  CDS and CDNSKEY RRs. Thanks tgreenx
 	* PR #245: Make drill trace use IPv6 when used with -6
 	  Thanks Paul Radford 
+	* Fix #254: Unquoted "value" rdata for CAA records fail to validate.
+	  Follows the long string unquoted syntax from RFC8659, section 4.1.1.
 
 1.8.4	2024-07-19
 	* Fix building documentation in build directory.
diff --git a/rr.c b/rr.c
index 95d07d31..ec191b74 100644
--- a/rr.c
+++ b/rr.c
@@ -390,12 +390,6 @@ ldns_rr_new_frm_str_internal(ldns_rr **newrr, const char *str,
 				ldns_buffer_skip(rd_buf, 1);
 				quoted = true;
 			}
-			if (!quoted && ldns_rr_descriptor_field_type(desc, r_cnt)
-					== LDNS_RDF_TYPE_LONG_STR) {
-
-				status = LDNS_STATUS_SYNTAX_RDATA_ERR;
-				goto error;
-			}
 		}
 
 		/* because number of fields can be variable, we can't rely on