This won’t help you solve your current problem, but perhaps may be helpful for you and any others reading this in the future: I can’t recommend enough using a

This won’t help you solve your current problem, but perhaps may be helpful for you and any others reading this in the future: I can’t recommend enough using a tool like dnscontrol [0] to manage your records. It allows you to keep your records in git and deploy changes to them in a controlled manner. Nightmares about situations like the one you’re in were what finally motivated me to implement dnscontrol ~10 years ago. [0] https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol