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Re: DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-02-27 20:14:02
On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:56 PM, John Levine wrote:

The problem is provisioning software.  We weenies can stuff anything
into our DNS servers we want, because we use vi and emacs and (in my
case) custom perl scripts.  For the other 99.5% of the world, what
they can put in their DNS zones is limited to whatever the web
provisioning software at their registrar or ISP or web host supports,
and I challenge you to find any that supports SPF records.


Er, so? If the tool to bundle up the needed bits for SPF-as-text and 
SPF-as-binary are similarly trivial, why should we care if people who want to 
use a feature of the Internet can't persuade their provider to make a trivial 
change.

Soon, y'all will be saying we should give up on DNSSEC because so few 
registrars support it in their web UIs.

--Paul Hoffman

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