Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:21:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT question about dns Message-ID: <87prt0vbgv.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4A88BCAAE6CDFDDFF91E3E30@utd65257.utdallas.edu> (Paul Schmehl's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:05:33 -0500") References: <4A88BCAAE6CDFDDFF91E3E30@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:05:33 -0500, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > 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. Are you sure there *is* a TXT record? The dig(1) utility should work fine, AFAICT: $ dig freebsd.org txt | expand | grep -i '[ ][ ]*in[ ][ ]*txt' ;freebsd.org. IN TXT freebsd.org. 507 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:69.147.83.53 ip4:69.147.83.54 ip6:2001:4f8:fff6::35 ip6:2001:4f8:fff6::36 ~all" $
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