Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:14:29 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT question about dns Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804072310480.81928@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <4A88BCAAE6CDFDDFF91E3E30@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <4A88BCAAE6CDFDDFF91E3E30@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 18:05 -0500, pauls@utdallas.edu 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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