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

2004-02-19 15:18:05
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-2] "Zámbori, Zoltán" wrote:

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

It's pretty, but I don't understand it.

Comprehensibility to humans is an important criterion.

S.

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