TXT records were originally intended to provide an option to place arbitrary user-comments.
Now, they are generally used for the SPF anti-spam system.
Answer
The short answer to your specific question of listing CNAMEs is that you cannot without permission to do zone transfers (see How to list all CNAME records for a given domain?).
That said, if your company's DNS server still supports the ANY query, you can use dig to list the other records by doing:
dig +noall +answer +multiline yourdomain.yourtld any
These ... +noall +answer +multiline
... are strictly optional and are simply output formatting flags to make the output more easily human readable (see dig man page ).
Example
$ dig +noall +answer +multiline bad.horse any
Returns:
bad.horse. 7200 IN A 162.252.205.157
bad.horse. 7200 IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
bad.horse. 7200 IN CAA 0 iodef "mailto:abuse@sandwich.net"
bad.horse. 7200 IN MX 10 mx.sandwich.net.
bad.horse. 7200 IN NS a.sn1.us.
bad.horse. 7200 IN NS b.sn1.us.
bad.horse. 7200 IN SOA a.sn1.us. n.sn1.us. (
2017032202 ; serial
1200 ; refresh (20 minutes)
180 ; retry (3 minutes)
1209600 ; expire (2 weeks)
60 ; minimum (1 minute)
)
Caveats (RFC8482)
Note that, since around 2019, most public DNS servers have stopped answering most DNS ANY
queries usefully. For background on that, see: https://blog.cloudflare.com/rfc8482-saying-goodbye-to-any/
If ANY
queries do not enumerate multiple records, the only option is to request each record type (e.g. A, CNAME, or MX) individually.
Best Answer
Do you mean all the TXT records associated with example.com or all the TXT records for all the childs of the example.com domain?
All the TXT records for example.com should be returned when you query them with dig. However, requesting the TXT records for all childs of the example.com domain is not possible unless you can do an AXFR transfer of the entire zone.