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Re: NXDOMAIN

2004-02-03 18:35:46


Meng Weng Wong wrote:

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:04:36PM -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
| I had wondered whether this should be integrated into SPF as well. A | single statement in section 2.2.2: | | If the DNS lookup returns NXDOMAIN, then the SPF processing must abort | and return "fail". | | Note that this is not as strong as saying that a domain must be able (in | theory) to handle mail. It is a cheaper operation as well, since only | the return code needs to be checked.

This is a good idea, but it would have to be at the top level only.

Once you get into includes, NXDOMAIN becomes okay.

Agreed 100%. I think that section 2.2.2 only refers to the initial lookup, though I could be wrong there.

Philip

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