Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:07:14 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT question about dns Message-ID: <D91870E8215B359B99419D08@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804072310480.81928@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <4A88BCAAE6CDFDDFF91E3E30@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804072310480.81928@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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--On Monday, April 07, 2008 23:14:29 +0000 D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote: > 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" Ummm...this turned out to be an ID10t problem. I'm too embarrassed to explain exactly what. :-( But thanks for the explanation. :-) -- Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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