Re: DNS gurus: What is the max length of a TXT records?

wayne wrote:
> No, regular expressions are not used in SPF.  I hope they never will
> be.  SPF is too complicated as is.  There are better ways of
> compressing the SPF records, if we actually need to do such things.
Yes, for example an even shorter (89 chars instead of 210) variation is:

v=spf1 ip4/24:152.163.225|205.188.139,144,156-157,159|64.12.136-138 
ptr:mx.aol.com ?all
A simple handmade C parser (as opposed to a regex lib) can read this 
notation.

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