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Re: The Case For XML in "Caller-ID for Email"

2004-01-23 20:24:46


Phil Howard wrote:


SPF can do this now with the "exists" mechanism.  My only problem with it
is that by using NXDOMAIN for a negative answer, it doesn't get to cache
very well.  I'd like to see it _also_ say that an A record in 0/8 space
also means negative (but can be cached as per the TTL value).


You can, of course, write -exists:stuff as well. In this case an NXDOMAIN means move to the next step, and A record means negative.

I agree that it would have been nice to have some control over which A record values are considered a match, and which aren't. This would allow support of some DNSBL which encode information in the A record returned.

However, I think that what we have is workable.

Philip

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