amtauto.co.uk
Full SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in DNS
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;amtauto.co.uk. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
amtauto.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- MIICWTCCAUMCAQAwGDEWMBQGA1UEAwwNYW10YXV0by5jby51azCCASIwDQYJKoZI hvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAOm3FgXojmp9sgdgO+sLtK4SCLUXdAkB3FUB [...truncated...] -----END CERTIFI…"
What Happened
A full Certificate Signing Request (CSR) was pasted into the DNS TXT field — chunked across multiple records due to the 255-char limit. The CSR itself is public information (it contains only the public key), but it is a spectacular example of using DNS as a general-purpose text storage system.
Full TXT Record Value
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIICWTCCAUMCAQAwGDEWMBQGA1UEAwwNYW10YXV0by5jby51azCCASIwDQYJKoZI
hvcNAQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAOm3FgXojmp9sgdgO+sLtK4SCLUXdAkB3FUB
[...truncated...]
-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----