[TriLUG] DIG and Nameservers

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> I think that I am asking the right questions, but I am not getting the
> answers that I expect.
>
> I started with whois for "rentalventures.com," which is one of our ( my
> client's ) domain names.
>
> Whois says that directnic.com is the Authoritative Nameserver ( a couple
> of host names at directnic.com ).
>
> I log on to their web site, and try to add a TXT record for the SPF
> record.  Apparently I am successful.
>
> I use DIG, and say "dig rentalventures.com any" and get back the SOA
> record, the two nameserver records, and ONE of the two MX records.
>
> The SOA Serial number does not appear to be human-readable, so I can't
> tell whether my edits made any difference.
>
> OK, I have just changed the Priority of each of the two MX records, and,
> if I do "dig @ns0.directnic.com rentalventures.com any" I see one of the
> MX records, with the new value.  The SOA serial number has not changed.
>
> I know that there are several A records, as well as the TXT record that
> I added.
>
> If I do "dig -t txt ... " it does not respond with anything.
>
> If I do "dig -t mx ... " it does not respond with anything different.
>
      I've always done

dig some.place.over.there mx
dig some.place.over.there txt
dig some.place.over.there soa

But I then tried dig -t mx here and got nothing much back. Weird

>
> I am sure that I am doing something wrong, but what is it?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Brian ( one of the other ones! )
>
>
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