dnstxt 1 user commands djbwares
dnstxt look up the text records of a domain name
`dnstxt` fqdn

## Description

`dnstxt` looks up the `TXT` resource records for fqdn in the Domain Name System, and prints them. If there are no `TXT` resource records, `dnstxt` prints a blank line.

Normally `dnstxt` exits 0. If it encounters a temporary problem that prevents it from determining the `TXT` resource records, it prints an error message and exits 111.

`dnstxt` makes all DNS lookups using the locally configured DNS proxy server(s), and performs no name qualification on what is taken to already be a "fully-qualified" domain name (trailing dot or no) fqdn. See djbdns-client 5 for how this server is found, and for certain standard domain names that short-circuit DNS lookups to the proxy DNS server(s).

## History

`dnstxt` was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns toolset in 1999.

## Author

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.