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MARID first, TXT second

2004-05-23 01:36:09

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:20:43PM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
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| While there would be period when some software would prefer query both 
| records at the same time, I expect in the future we'll move to using only 
| new records and those systems that query dns will set to only query MARID 
| records and if they don't get the answer then query TXT (despite that this 
| will create small delay, if < 10% of records become TXT, it'll be worth it 
| to introduce small extra delay but cut back on the work of sending extra 
| packets on the net).

I wouldn't be surprised if a MARID-enabled nameserver did something like:

 if MARID record found, return MARID record
 else, return TXT SPF records in "Additional Section".

That helps.