Unable to add Google domain ownership TXT record

Submitted by imcdona on Mon, 01/13/2014 - 15:43

Trying to add a TXT record to verify domain ownership with Google on a virtualmin domain fails.

The error is: "Failed to save DNS record : Record name contains invalid characters"

An example verification TXT record looks like this: google-site-verification=djeA0O6_GZ0xQUtsQXJGZHiYPBXrEM_vGoNw5y42Ll4

I'm not sure what characters are invalid in that string. I've tried taking out the "=" sign, the underscores and also the dashes as a test and it still fails.

I was able to add the record by logging as root and adding a TXT record type to the zone in question via the BIND module.

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 01/13/2014 - 16:20

I think the issue is that you are entering google-site-verification=djeA0O6_GZ0xQUtsQXJGZHiYPBXrEM_vGoNw5y42Ll4 as the record name, when it should really be the record value.

The name should be just the domain name, and the value should be google-site-verification=etc...