Re: CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

Many thanks for all the responses. For the sake of completeness I am just reporting that every thing is working as expected. On 2019-11-04 12:30 p.m., Computerisms Corporation wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to create a CNAME in one zone to resolve as a TXT record in another

Re: CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

  dns2.encirca.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns1.encirca.net.    157329    IN    A    108.166.170.106 dns2.encirca.net.    157329    IN    A    64.62.200.132 ;; Query time: 108 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.220#53(10.0.0.220) ;; WHEN: Mon Nov  4 12:40:22 2019 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 232 On Mon, 4 Nov 2019,

Re: CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

Hi Reindl, Thanks for your response. no matter which record type a CNAME will match and that is the simple reason that you can't have A/MX records with the same name MX mail.example-com CNAME mail.example.com TXT whatever.example.com CNAME whatever.example.com yes, I understand that I can't

CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to create a CNAME in one zone to resolve as a TXT record in another zone. Can't find anything that says it will work, but can't find any thing that says it won't, either. For example, I have added in the zone file for dom1: _acme-challenge CNAME _acme-