Re: The IANA has assigned us DNS number 99 for SPF

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Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
> With my dig command:
>
>   $ dig -t 99 sixxs.com
>   ;; Warning, ignoring invalid type 99
>
>   ; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> -t 99 sixxs.com
>
> it then really did ignore "-t 99" and got the A record.
> How... unfortunate.  Better would be to abort the mission.
>
> In the manual page:
>  "The -t option sets the query type to type. It can
>   be any valid query type which is supported in BIND9."
>
> So, dig thinks type 99 isn't valid or isn't supported :)
  $ dig sixxs.com -t 99 +sho
  ;; Warning, ignoring invalid type 99
  $ dig sixxs.com -t TYPE99 +sho
  \# 11 763D73706631202D616C6C

So what you really meant is to say "-t TYPE99".
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