Route 53: Too many values to unpack MX about octodns-route53

[ross]

preference, exchange = rr['Value'].split(' ')

ValueError: too many values to unpack```

It looks like one of the MXs in this zone has more than a single space in the value which isn't expected. Can you look through them and see if you can spot it? Don't necessary need the exact value if you don't want to share it, just the "shape", words & spaces, of it would do.

[AppleMaster]

Wow. I've gone through the mx records and checked for rogue spaces, one of them in route53 had a value of: 1 mx1.slgnt.eu. which is actually a doublespace - removing it and guaranteeing one space resolved the issue.

Thanks a lot for the extra pair of eyes, I guess assuming my source zone was entirely valid was my mistake :)

[ross]

Wow. I've gone through the mx records and checked for rogue spaces, one of them in route53 had a value of: 1 mx1.slgnt.eu. which is actually a doublespace - removing it and guaranteeing one space resolved the issue.

Cool. That should probably be handled by octoDNS so we can leave this open to track that. It's likel a problem in a bunch of other places as well.

[AppleMaster]

I agree there are probably a few R53 specific cases - another that comes to mind is CNAME's.
In R53, a CNAME value doesn't need a trailing . but octodns will expect one when using R53 as a source to another target - which means it fails (as an example).

[AppleMaster]

Hey look at that, been a year since I raised this...Does octodns handle these cases any better yet?

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