On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM Gellner, Oliver via mailop <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21.11.2025 at 18:25 Alex Shakhov | SH Consulting via mailop wrote:
>
> > Based on what I’m seeing, this does not appear to be a DNS propagation
> issue. We’ve implemented several other DNS records since then, and those
> changes have propagated normally. External resolvers can also see the CNAME
> record we added with the correct target value so the record itself is in
> place and resolving.
>
> > However, for some reason the underlying TXT record behind CNAME is not
> being evaluated.
>
> > I may need to try publishing a direct DMARC TXT record instead. That
> wasn’t the original plan since we don’t have direct DNS access, but it
> might be the only reliable way to ensure proper DMARC evaluation.
>
> > Domain name: http://elevatere.agency
>
> I can resolve both a TXT and a CNAME record for _dmarc.elevatere.agency,
> which should not happen.
> I don't believe the issue is related to DMARC in particular, but rather a
> general issue with one of the involved DNS servers.
>
>
Same.

Authoritative servers for elevatere.agency are Cloudflare, and
Cloudflare's servers are serving up both TXT and CNAME records for _
dmarc.elevatere.agency. That violates RFC 2181 (
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2181#section-10.1). Gotta pick
either TXT or CNAME.

$ dig elevatere.agency ns +short

jose.ns.cloudflare.com.

raphaela.ns.cloudflare.com.


$ dig _dmarc.elevatere.agency txt @jose.ns.cloudflare.com +short

"v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; fo=1:d:s"

$ dig _dmarc.elevatere.agency cname @jose.ns.cloudflare.com +short
honey-25079.dmarc.cc.

-- 
Todd
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