TXT record validation check

None.

Resource Records.

All nameserver IP addresses.

Every 5 minutes.

None.

High.

Purpose

The check validates that the TXT record remains unaltered to its configured values/values.

The very versatile TXT record is used for a variety of things, from publishing informational text strings, validation strings, to more standardised policy rules such as SPF, DMARC, DKIM and BIMI.

Event severities and messages

Records mach.
No detected changes to the TXT record.

DNSSEC signature validates correctly.*
DNSSEC signature for the TXT record set has passed validation.

The record {Resource Record}exist in the domain but not as record type TXT.
No TXT record found.

The record {Resource Record} does not exist..
The query received a NXDOMAIN response.

Unrecognised records.
Lists records that should have been in the query response but weren’t.

Missing records.
Lists records that should have been included in the query response but weren’t.

{DNS IP} responded with RCODE for the record {Resource Record}.
Please see the Generic DNS response code page for further information.

DNSSEC validation failure.*
DNSSEC signature for this resource record has failed validation.

{DNS Name/IP} responded with RCODE for the record {Resource Record}.
Please see the Generic DNS response code page for further information.

* Require DNSSEC.