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Re: TXT Records

2003-11-19 16:18:35
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Jonathan Steinert writes:
I need to just point out; If we keep adding things to do in DNS lookups 
in a serial order, the time it takes to do an SPF lookup goes up and up 
and up.

I'm not saying that these aren't good ideas, but we need to realize that 
 the tradeoff is in longer SPF lookup times. The trouble is that SPF is 
being designed to be fast enough to run at message acceptance time, and 
on high load servers it's bad to keep a connection open for long.

Yeah, this is very important.  +1 from me on this point.
Many potential users would turn off SPF if a complete lookup
(incorporating several DNS lookups) takes more than a few seconds
on average.

- --j.

--Jonathan

Philip Gladstone wrote:
This could be handled in the following way:

1  Add a rule to SPF that says that in the event of no SPF record being 
found on a domain, then try the _spf subdomain. (There was talk at one 
stage of always going to the _spf subdomain).

2   For budget DNS providers, let customers use CNAME to get from 
_spf.domain1.com   to _spf.maindomain.com   where maindomain.com is 
hosted on an enlightened provider like zoneedit.

When the SPF bandwagon starts to roll, and the small DNS providers start 
to find that people are moving away from them due to their lack of TXT 
records, then they will start to support them.

Philip


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