Find DKIM and DMARC Records?

Question

Is there a method to find a domain's DKIM and DMARC records using dig or nslookup?

I have attempted to do the following:

dig somedomain.org any

returns many records, but not the known DKIM and DMARC text records.

nslookup -type=txt somedomain.org

returns all the text records known except the DKIM and DMARC records.

Answer 1

To query the TXT record for DMARC, you can use:

dig TXT _dmarc.example.org

To query for a particular record for DKIM, you would need to know the selector prefix. You will find it in the s value in an email's DKIM-Signature.

For example:

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=example.org;
s=google; t=1615461277;
[…]

You would then query it as TXT:

dig TXT google._domainkey.example.org

Answer 2

For DKIM records, if you have received a DKIM-signed email from that domain, look at the DKIM-Signature header line(s).

From the spec:

All DKIM keys are stored in a subdomain named _domainkey. Given a DKIM-Signature field with a "d=" tag of example.com and an "s=" tag of foo.bar, the DNS query will be for foo.bar._domainkey.example.com.

So in this example, you can then run:

dig TXT foo.bar._domainkey.example.com

Credit to andol, whose comment led me to this solution.

Answer 3

You should use +short with dig to get the DMARC record only.

dig +short TXT _dmarc.domain.com

Answer 4

Using Windows built-in tool nslookup

1. Open Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
2. Enter nslookup
3. Enter set type=txt
4. Enter _dmarc.somedomain.org, replace somedomain.org

Example:

C:\Users\user>nslookup

Default Server:  localdns
Address:  192.168.1.1

> set type=txt

> _dmarc.somedomain.org

Non-authoritative answer:
_dmarc.somedomain.org text =

    "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:postmaster@somedomain.org"

You may use server 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) before lookup DMARC TXT record.

Answer 5

We also built a tool called Gappie that allows you to check your SPF, DKIM and DMARC records in Slack or Telegram at no cost.

You can use Gappie to

• Check IP Reputation
• Validate domain records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX records)