[TriLUG] DIG and Nameservers

[Aaron Schrab via TriLUG]

At 15:34 -0500 17 Feb 2017, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>I log on to their web site, and try to add a TXT record for the SPF
>record.  Apparently I am successful.

I'm not familiar with their web interface, but thinking that it might be 
a thin interface on top of normal zone files and being aware of the most 
common pitfall there I tried:

1128$ dig +short @ns1.directnic.com rentalventures.com txt

1129$ dig +short @ns1.directnic.com rentalventures.com.rentalventures.com txt
"v=spf1 mx ptr ~all"

Note the doubled domain in the second, successful query. You likely need 
to add a trailing `.` on the name in that interface to indicate that 
it's fully qualified rather than needing to have the zone appended. You 
may also be able to use just `@` (without the quotes) for the name; at 
least with BIND that's a shortcut for the zone name.
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