CNAME as an alias to a TXT record
Computerisms Corporation
bob at computerisms.ca
Wed Nov 6 19:02:03 UTC 2019
Many thanks for all the responses. For the sake of completeness I am
just reporting that every thing is working as expected.
On 2019-11-04 12:30 p.m., Computerisms Corporation wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to create a CNAME in one zone to
> resolve as a TXT record in another zone. Can't find anything that says
> it will work, but can't find any thing that says it won't, either.
>
> For example, I have added in the zone file for dom1:
>
> _acme-challenge CNAME _acme-challenge.dom2.com.
>
> and then in zone file for dom2:
>
> _acme-challenge TXT "thisismytextvalue"
>
> Then, and more or less as expected, the following dig command fails to
> return a record.
>
> dig -t TXT _acme-challenge.dom1.com
>
> Is there a way to get the dig command to return the TXT value for dom2?
> Or is that something that can pretty much only happen with A records?
>
>
>
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