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Re: specification 02.9.7 released

2004-02-08 16:13:35
On Feb 8, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

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?


Thank you.  So obvious that I totally missed it.

I was misled by was the fact that nowhere on the SPF wizard and web site does it mention that people must protect their subdomains as well as the domain itself. Also I've noticed many of the domains that implement SPF only do so for their top domain. For instance

dig mail.com txt

mail.com. 7h51m1s IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:205.158.62.0/24 ip4:203.86.166.0/24 ip4:210.177.227.128/28 ip4:203.86.162.160/28 ip4:210.184.92.208/29 ~all"

where as

dig www.mail.com txt

returns no records.

It does little good if everyone just enters the single SPF record for the domain alone as sidestepping becomes a simple matter. This seems like a rather large hole that should be plugged by either changing the spec to allow walking up the list of parent domains, or by updating the documentation to indicate that domain owners should publish 2 TXT records at a minimum if they circumstances warrant.



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