CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

[Computerisms Corporation]

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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