DNS TXT Record Escaping Issue - Affecting Service

Hi Cloudflare Support/Community,

We're experiencing an issue with DNS TXT record retrieval that's impacting our service. We have a TXT record for

endpoints.adm.allxon.com

endpoints.adm.allxon.com

containing a JSON string for API endpoint information.
Here's the original format of the JSON within the TXT record:

"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}"

"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}"

We use a DoH to get this data. Up until recently, this was working fine. However, the response format has changed.

Here's the current response from Cloudflare's DoH service:

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\\\"region\\\":\\\"GLOBAL\\\",\\\"endpoints\\\":{\\\"API\\\":[\\\"api.adm.allxon.com\\\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\\\"region\\\":\\\"GLOBAL\\\",\\\"endpoints\\\":{\\\"API\\\":[\\\"api.adm.allxon.com\\\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

And here's what a previous, correct response (from our logs) looked like:

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

For comparison, We also tried Google's DoH (

dns.google

dns.google

) returns the correct (original) format:

The crucial difference is the escaping within the

data

data

field. Previously, single backslashes (

) were used to escape the inner double quotes in the JSON. Now, Cloudflare's DNS is returning triple backslashes (

\\\

\\\

).

Our code expects the original single backslash escaping and can't parse the JSON with the triple backslashes.
We'd really appreciate

it if you could revert to the previous single backslash escaping. Let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks in advance for your help!

DNS TXT Record Escaping Issue - Affecting Service

Hi Cloudflare Support/Community,

We're experiencing an issue with DNS TXT record retrieval that's impacting our service. We have a TXT record for

endpoints.adm.allxon.com

endpoints.adm.allxon.com

containing a JSON string for API endpoint information.
Here's the original format of the JSON within the TXT record:

"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}"

"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}"

We use a DoH to get this data. Up until recently, this was working fine. However, the response format has changed.

Here's the current response from Cloudflare's DoH service:

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\\\"region\\\":\\\"GLOBAL\\\",\\\"endpoints\\\":{\\\"API\\\":[\\\"api.adm.allxon.com\\\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\\\"region\\\":\\\"GLOBAL\\\",\\\"endpoints\\\":{\\\"API\\\":[\\\"api.adm.allxon.com\\\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

And here's what a previous, correct response (from our logs) looked like:

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

{
    // ... other fields
    "Answer": [
        {
            // ... other fields
            "data": "\"api-v1={\"region\":\"GLOBAL\",\"endpoints\":{\"API\":[\"api.adm-dev.allxon.com\"]}}\""
        }
    ]
}

For comparison, We also tried Google's DoH (

dns.google

dns.google

) returns the correct (original) format:

The crucial difference is the escaping within the

data

data

field. Previously, single backslashes (

) were used to escape the inner double quotes in the JSON. Now, Cloudflare's DNS is returning triple backslashes (

\\\

\\\

).

Our code expects the original single backslash escaping and can't parse the JSON with the triple backslashes.
We'd really appreciate

it if you could revert to the previous single backslash escaping. Let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks in advance for your help!

DNS TXT Record Escaping Issue - Affecting Service

DNS TXT Record Escaping Issue - Affecting Service

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