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Re: specification 02.9.7 released

2004-02-08 15:32:29
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:17:00PM -0600, Karl Kraft wrote:

2)  Many domains publish a wildcard record for the domain, so that 
typos in urls still work. For instace all of the same work:

http://www.britneyspears.com/
http://wwww.britneyspears.com/
http://ww.britneyspears.com/
Thus, there are an infinite number of subdomains of britneyspears.com.  

What you mean is

   $origin britneyspears.com.
   * IN A 216.166.80.117

But there is no way in SPF to indicate that they guidance I publish in 
an SPF/TXT record applies to all subdomains as well as my master 
domains.  So if I protect britneyspears.com with the following:

britneyspears.com.               1H IN TXT       "v=spf1 
ip4:216.166.80.0/24 -all"

All the smarter spammer needs to do is send mail from 
joe(_at_)foo(_dot_)britneyspears(_dot_)com, and SPF will return an evaluation 
of None 
instead of Fail.

Hmm..  maybe
   $origin britneyspears.com.
   @ IN A   216.166.80.117
        TXT "v=spf1 a/24 -all"
   * IN A   216.166.80.117
        TXT "v=spf1 -all"

which will allow mail from "britneyspears.com" but not from subdomains?

Alternatively:

   $origin britneyspears.com.
   @ IN A   216.166.80.117
        TXT "v=spf1 a/24 -all"
   * IN A   216.166.80.117
        TXT "v=spf1 a/24 -all"

would allow "mail from: <whatever(_at_)wherever(_dot_)britneyspears(_dot_)com>"

Or am I missing something here?

HTH
Alex
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