On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 18:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
Does anyone know how to use dig or some other tool to query for TXT records
in DNS?
I'm working on implementing spf on a small domain that I maintain, and it
doesn't seem to be working (according to the validators I'm using.) I'd like
to be able to query the dns server myself, but I can't seem to find anything
on how to extract or view TXT records for a domain.
I tried dig @server domain TXT and dig @server domain MX, but I don't get the
TXT record.
%dig @what_ever_nameserver example.com txt
works for me. Let's see what AOL returns:
%dig @localhost aol.com txt
...
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aol.com. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
aol.com. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1
ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24
ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23
ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ip4:64.12.143.99/32 ip4:64.12.143.100/32
ip4:64.12.143.101/32 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"
aol.com. 300 IN TXT "spf2.0/pra
ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24
ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23
ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ip4:64.12.143.99/32 ip4:64.12.143.100/32
ip4:64.12.143.101/32 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"
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