multiple entries for TXT record

enigmedia online-reg at enigmedia.com
Fri Oct 26 13:47:36 UTC 2012


On 10/26/2012 7:37 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 06:31:31AM -0700,
>  enigmedia <online-reg at enigmedia.com> wrote 
>  a message of 34 lines which said:
>
>> I wasn't sure if I was "allowed" to have more than one TXT record in
>> a zone, and when I googled around the only references I saw were to
>> concatenating multiple name-value pairs into a single record.
>
> I've now checked RFC 4408, the SPF standard and such a single record
> would be illegal (section 3.1.3 of the RFC), since it would not be
> legal SPF syntax.
>  
>> I originally tried adding a second record, but when I did this and
>> used some testing websites to check the TXT records for the zone,
>> they only returned the first one, so I wasn't sure if having more
>> than one was valid.
>
> Many DNS tool are buggy in that respect: they forget that several
> records of the same type and name are possible (it is common for A and
> AAAA records, for instance).

Thanks again for the clarification! I've emended the entry into two separate
TXT records.





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