How to enter SPF record in Linode's DNS Manager page
In the TXT section of the Linode DNS Manager for my domain, I added an entry as follows:
Name: spf
Value: "v=spf1 a mx -all"
TTL: Default
Have I done it right?
When I ran DIG from the terminal, it gave the following output:
root@server:~# dig @ns1.linode.com TXT myDomain.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> @ns1.linode.com TXT myDomain.com
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48362
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1024
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;myDomain.com. IN TXT
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
myDomain.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.linode.com. webmaster.myDomain.com. 2014120347 14400 14400 1209600 86400
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 2600:3c00::a#53(2600:3c00::a)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 04 02:49:19 EST 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 100
(I can also post, if its useful, the results I received from
Comparing my output to that displayed in another thread here
1) My SPF record is not showing in the ANSWER Section
2) I don't have the Linode DNS servers mentioned in the AUTHORITY Section, though I have 5 entries (ns1 - ns5) in my DNS Manager page.
3) The DNS server record is not shown in the same way in the AUTHORITY Section
I would appreciate any additional advice on configuring the DNS to play nicely with the rest of the net.
Cheers,
Nap
4 Replies
2) Must special characters be escaped or does the Linode DNS do that automagically?
TIA
2) I don't know. Since domain names have a limited character range, I wouldn't think so.