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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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