"Prove your website, with DNS" instructions seem to be wrong

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"Prove your website, with DNS" instructions seem to be wrong #10226

Open JulesBrookfield opened 6 years ago

JulesBrookfield commented 6 years ago

It seems to me that the instructions on keybase.io website and windows app say to add a TXT record where the name is blank or "@". I did this, but my website/domain verification would always fail. Once I took a look at what the command line was expecting, which seemed to be "_keybase", I changed the name to "_keybase" and it worked wonderfully - I've tried this with 3 more domains and the process and resolution was the same.

raiderrobert commented 4 years ago

Agreed. Also, if you're setting up SPF records for your domain (which you should do!), this makes it difficult to merge the records.

The instructions should be "_keybase" imo. Below is my rewritten copy.

Enter the following as a TXT entry in your DNS zone, exactly as it appears. If you need a "name" for an entry, use "_keybase".