[Ah. To paraphrase: "two countries separated by a common language history." 😉 I need to spend more time in Denmark to improve on my Danish. I'm ashamed that I struggle with spoken Danish. Written is usually OK. 😞] Hi Jacob! Yes, I agree: use label selctors (_foo) instead of record type selectors is an alternative approach that makes the abuse slightly easier to live with, but it's still ... less than elegant, IMHO. "That's not how the DNS was designed." And you are probably quite right about the UI panels. Cheers, /Liman ns.se@lists.iis.se 2025-05-09 09:31 [+0200]:
"Lars-Johan Liman via Ns.se" <ns.se@lists.iis.se> writes:
[Since others switched to English, I will too.]
[We did because Emil and I do not write well in Swedish and you guys tend to prefer English over Danish when we meet in person. I don't mind reading Swedish.]
For anyone who thinks that using TXT records to solve your custom problem is a quick and simple solution, think again. Or contact me, and I'll drag you out of that misconception ... And mind you: new record types are dirt cheap, and very easy to create and register. 😉
I've seen my fair share of TXT record abuse as well, but at least modern TXT record abuse is limited to more specific label names like '_dmarc', 'someselector._domainkey' and similar.
I think one reason TXT records are often abused is that DNS control panels are often slow to adopt new record types, and then the easy way out is to just use a TXT record.
Best regards, Jacob