If you would like to query for a particular record type for a domain, then this tip is for you. In my specific case, I needed to make sure that my mail server was reading the txt record correctly for our domain. You can use this host command to do so:
#host -t txt <domainname>
You should be able to do the same for any domain if you want to see if they have an SPF record in place to cut down on spoofed mail.