Re: OT question about dns
--On Monday, April 07, 2008 23:14:29 + D Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 18:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT question about dns
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:05:33 -0500, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 $ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT question about dns
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. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT question about dns
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 at 18:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
