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Re: solving the demon problem

2004-03-03 21:00:54

On Mar 3, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Meng Weng Wong wrote:

so suppose domain.com publishes SPF.

but workstation.domain.com does not.

right now SPF tells you to publish an SPF record for every single
subdomain that has either A or MX.  but that's yucky.

but if we add a match_subdomains modifier to domain.com's record, we
can allow subdomain lookups and the problem is solved!

what do people think?

domain.com IN TXT "v=spf1 -all match_subdomains=1"

It's important to note that this demon only exists prior to full adoption. Once full adoption has occurred, default records can be switched to -all.

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