# ACME v2 will ask two different dns TXT for a.com and \*.a.com, but only one \_acme-challenge.a.com is asked

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**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-will-ask-two-different-dns-txt-for-a-com-and-a-com-but-only-one-acme-challenge-a-com-is-asked/56340 "2018-03-15T06:53:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![wangkilin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@wangkilin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/wangkilin)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-will-ask-two-different-dns-txt-for-a-com-and-a-com-but-only-one-acme-challenge-a-com-is-asked/56340/1 "2018-03-15T06:53:46Z")

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ACME v2 will ask two different dns TXT for [a.com](http://a.com) and \*.a.com, but only one \_acme-challenge.a.com is asked

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**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-will-ask-two-different-dns-txt-for-a-com-and-a-com-but-only-one-acme-challenge-a-com-is-asked/56340/2 "2018-03-15T07:15:19Z")

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Yes, it is intentional. You are validating two separate DNS identifiers, and you can create two different TXT records with different values on the `_acme-challenge.a.com` DNS name.

Did you have a question about it/issue performing the validation?

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**Author:** ![wangkilin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@wangkilin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/wangkilin)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-will-ask-two-different-dns-txt-for-a-com-and-a-com-but-only-one-acme-challenge-a-com-is-asked/56340/3 "2018-03-16T14:07:04Z")

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it’s ok and working well. thanks~

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-will-ask-two-different-dns-txt-for-a-com-and-a-com-but-only-one-acme-challenge-a-com-is-asked/56340/4 "2018-04-15T14:07:15Z")

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