CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

[Computerisms Corporation]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your response, much appreciated.

Still not working on the servers it needs to be working on, but have 
reproduced your results in a test environment.

On 2019-11-04 12:42 p.m., m3047 wrote:
> I would expect so.
> 
> HECATE:~ m3047$ dig points-to-m3047.net.m3047.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> points-to-m3047.net.m3047.
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50873
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;points-to-m3047.net.m3047.    IN    A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> POINTS-TO-M3047.NET.m3047. 600    IN    CNAME    M3047.NET.
> m3047.net.        7200    IN    A    209.221.140.128
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> m3047.net.        6334    IN    NS    dns1.encirca.net.
> m3047.net.        6334    IN    NS    dns2.encirca.net.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dns1.encirca.net.    157334    IN    A    108.166.170.106
> dns2.encirca.net.    157334    IN    A    64.62.200.132
> 
> ;; Query time: 69 msec
> ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.220#53(10.0.0.220)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Nov  4 12:40:17 2019
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 197
> 
> HECATE:~ m3047$ dig points-to-m3047.net.m3047. txt
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> points-to-m3047.net.m3047. txt
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46861
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;points-to-m3047.net.m3047.    IN    TXT
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> POINTS-TO-M3047.NET.m3047. 600    IN    CNAME    M3047.NET.
> m3047.net.        7200    IN    TXT    "v=spf1 ip4:209.221.140.128/31 
> +mx -all"
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> m3047.net.        6329    IN    NS    dns1.encirca.net.
> m3047.net.        6329    IN    NS    dns2.encirca.net.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dns1.encirca.net.    157329    IN    A    108.166.170.106
> dns2.encirca.net.    157329    IN    A    64.62.200.132
> 
> ;; Query time: 108 msec
> ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.220#53(10.0.0.220)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Nov  4 12:40:22 2019
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 232
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, 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?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bob Miller